"auDA was not set up by the politician that created Australia's Internet censorship laws. It was setup by the Australian Internet community."
The Australian Internet Community ?? I don't think so. I've been using the internet in Australia for a while now, and I was never consulted about it. If they think that a few people representing the ISPs is the Australian Internet Community, they're wrong. Let me guess...Telstra (partialy govt owned) would be a big part of our so-called community that created auDA? And what about the other big player OzEmail, of which Malcolm Turnbull (who just sold his $240,000,000 AUD) was up untill recently a major investor, who is now a member of the Australian Liberal Party. And may I remind you that the federal govt is currently controlled by the liberals.
The Australian govt has a pretty crap track record in making up useless unenforcable laws regarding the internet. auDA is just a front for the government
These trans-continental fibre optic cables don't just get laid overnight and become live the next day. This takes quite a while. One way they could have tapped the fibre optic cable(s) that would not be noticed by the cable operator by splicing, would be for example, on a new line going from Australia to the USA would be to tap the line close to the USA while they're still laying fibre half way accross the Pacific Ocean. This way they could avoid detection because there would be no drop in traffic over the cable...because there isn't any as of yet. Although the other theories suggested here about getting a fishing boat to *accidentaly* cut the cable to buy time, I think that my theory would raise less suspicion, assuming they're splicing the cable and not tapping the repeaters. The next main problem is to get all that data back to the NSA. Another fibre optic cable going from the trans-continental cable would be discovered pretty quickly. You can't hide something that big easily. The US Navy uses a system known as HAARP to communicate with submarines at sea using ELF (Extremely Low Frequency). The spy sub could attatch a buoy of some sort that communicates with HAARP (if it can recieve as well as transmit.) Well that's my main theory
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"auDA was not set up by the politician that created Australia's Internet censorship laws. It was setup by the Australian Internet community." The Australian Internet Community ?? I don't think so. I've been using the internet in Australia for a while now, and I was never consulted about it. If they think that a few people representing the ISPs is the Australian Internet Community, they're wrong. Let me guess...Telstra (partialy govt owned) would be a big part of our so-called community that created auDA? And what about the other big player OzEmail, of which Malcolm Turnbull (who just sold his $240,000,000 AUD) was up untill recently a major investor, who is now a member of the Australian Liberal Party. And may I remind you that the federal govt is currently controlled by the liberals. The Australian govt has a pretty crap track record in making up useless unenforcable laws regarding the internet. auDA is just a front for the government
These trans-continental fibre optic cables don't just get laid overnight and become live the next day. This takes quite a while. One way they could have tapped the fibre optic cable(s) that would not be noticed by the cable operator by splicing, would be for example, on a new line going from Australia to the USA would be to tap the line close to the USA while they're still laying fibre half way accross the Pacific Ocean. This way they could avoid detection because there would be no drop in traffic over the cable...because there isn't any as of yet. Although the other theories suggested here about getting a fishing boat to *accidentaly* cut the cable to buy time, I think that my theory would raise less suspicion, assuming they're splicing the cable and not tapping the repeaters. The next main problem is to get all that data back to the NSA. Another fibre optic cable going from the trans-continental cable would be discovered pretty quickly. You can't hide something that big easily. The US Navy uses a system known as HAARP to communicate with submarines at sea using ELF (Extremely Low Frequency). The spy sub could attatch a buoy of some sort that communicates with HAARP (if it can recieve as well as transmit.) Well that's my main theory