By a muslim woman for an explosive check? It's not the age I'm pointing out, just that it seems like one giant wind up of western culture so that we're always just below the threshold of going crazy and the absurdity of it all.
Another thing is that if global warming is a problem that needs a solution RIGHT NOW then we need nuclear power.
I think the main problem with your argument is that you don't have all the facts and refuse any given to you. Therefore your statements don't have any credibility.
One problem here is that both natural gas and nuclear plants also rely on heat exchangers, and there's no reason this material can't be used to boost their efficiency, too.
I don't see a problem here.
The material would have to be tested for how it behaves under Neutron bombardment.. That's the thing that limits the life of all nuclear reactors to a few decades. The older they get the more brittle the reactor vessel becomes and the more likely they will have a Loss Of Cooling Accident or LOCA. That the reason a lot of utilities opt to shut them down early.
Solar is fashionable.
The sun is always stylish, I've noticed it's always so radiant.
Solar power is getting a lot of backing right now from government funding, private funding, and just general popularity.
Not according to the 2005 US Energy Act. Solar can't access any funding through it the way Oil, coal and Nuclear does.
Solar has to get its funding through small business funding. You can check the Act yourself to verify those facts. Sec 600-635 and 946, IIRC.
If they can get the people in natural gas and nuclear convinced it will help them too then they can secure more funding.
Well the great thing about gas is that you can convert Nuclear power plants to Gas and use the existing infrastructure (turbines and grid attachments). This material is more than likely for that purpose than it is for solar power, even though it will find a good application there.
Solar power is expensive, they admit this in the article. Solar power is intermittent, again they admit this in the article. Solar power takes a lot of land and other resources. Solar also requires a favorable geography and climate to compete.
Nuclear power is expensive. Nuclear power is intermittent. Nuclear power takes a lot of land and other resources. Nuclear also requires a favorable geography and climate to compete.
Also Nuclear need special liability clauses in law to exist, it requires huge amounts of subsides to deliver incentives for utilities to build them. Nuclear produces huge amount of radio-effluents, Nuclear produces low energy return, Nuclear produces huge amounts of mine tailings.
Worst of all, Nuclear power hurts puppies.
These do not apply to nuclear and natural gas. I thought the goal was to find viable alternatives to coal power to improve air quality, provide reliable energy, and reduce CO2. The goal should not be making solar power viable, since there are other means to replace coal.
Solar is a good investment. It is low risk and less capital intensive than many other power investments. So despite all of the downsides and lack of subsidies it is still attracting investors, which is all a good sign. More than likely it is a much simpler investment than Nuclear power.
However it is wind power that is really starting to hammer Nuclear because it is a much more scalable technology.
They've taken their eyes off the prize. This should not be about making solar power the winner, it should be about making coal the loser.
One clear application is converting the heat exchangers in Nuclear Power plants to natural gas. This is not necessarily an anti-nuclear thing, as I know you like to frame it, but an answer to what to do with a lot of secondary nuclear infrastructure that is still serviceable as the reactors themselves are retired.
No one really loses. In a way it is a win for Nuclear because at least utilities will have a way to keep those facilities profitable and maintain the containment of the spent fuel as it takes at least a decade to cool. It's simply the way I suggest you see how easy it is to replace nuclear power with natural gas because it is a good sense option that is easy to implement. We need simple climat
Also in the article is the potential use in making better natural gas and nuclear power plants.
Also, as more and more nuclear reactors are retired converting them to natural gas as their turbine and grid infrastructure is already built. That's a huge amount of embedded energy invested in concrete and construction logistics building that infrastructure. There is a huge opportunity for climate wins by re-using this infrastructure and converting it to natural gas.
Plus operators or former nuclear plant can still generate profit on sites where they store nuclear material. You may even be in a position to preheat the water with waste heat from the spent fuel cooling ponds.
Solar-thermal is dying and this material is unlikely to revive it.
I think this will come in pretty handy for the molten salt solar.
Solar PV has dramatically declined in price, and is likely to continue to do so as manufacturing improves.
That doesn't mean that the two compete. PV appears to be in the peak power market during the day and molten solar at night when people are home.
Solar-thermal requires more maintenance, and requires direct sun.
Yes. It is solar power.
Solar-thermal isn't cost competitive, and has far less room for improvement, since mirrors and pipes are mature tech.
Isn't cost competitive with what?
The plants produce four times the energy when you double their size there are plenty of place you could put these in deserts.
Unlike PV, it will produce no power on overcast days.
That's why we need to build huge amounts of them in different places. The sun is always shining somewhere. That's also why you build lot's of wind, geothermal and wave power.
The only significant advantage of solar-thermal is that it can store heat and time-shift power generation.
Which is exactly why you use it.
I think all these new techniques for producing energy are really exciting developments. We are at the dawn of when power grids are getting more intelligence in them to move power around. Technologies like these are going to play a big part in that.
I won't be sexually molested by a government goon. So until the TSA goes away I won't go anywhere my Tacoma won't take me.
My friend, a 35 year old white male with tattoos, got checked for explosives at an airport by a middle eastern female security guard. You really have to appreciate the irony of that.
Wouldn't that mean that they cannot ask companies to build backdoors as that would weaken their systems?
No. First of all they don't want back door access through flaws, the law is essentially demand individuals and business to give them front door access designed into the hardware and software stack. It is blatant stupidity because it will be impossible for them to protect their systems from being compromised by black hats and eventually organised crime. The Government is proposing powers of such gargantuan scope it will be impossible for them to keep it under control, how imposing and intrusive it is, how utterly lazy the government is to even ask for these powers.
Essentially this what I see that is relevant to what you are asking:
Division 1 Items list the entire OSI stack and the hardware stack. Whoever was advising them on the law had enough technical know how to include everything. There were no gaps in either hardware or software stack were the govt is demanding powers. No manufacturer or software supplier escapes. They can get access to the keyboard hardware if they wish, but they want it easy. All O.S vendors will have to comply.
No website escapes if you interact with any mass group of people or a customer base that the govt wants information about if you are a designated communications communications provider.
In terms of actions business will have to comply with if they have eligible activities every part of the supply chain is covered from creating components to installers. They can all be issues with a Technical assistance request or Technical Capability Notice. In the "Listed acts or things" Govt can demand removal of encryption, proprietary design information about your software and how it works, demand you install their servers, force data formats and integration assistance finally leaving business to maintain their servers. After that the business is then responsible for maintaining access to intercept equipment whilst hiding it and concealing access.
Jail time, heavy fines and exposure to liability for businesses and individuals who don't co-operate.
Division 2 discusses exactly how government will disrupt the businesses who co-operate and the specific steps that have to executed to comply. They can change the specification, the scope and responsibilities of those assigned, demands assistance and has anti by-pass clauses. The fine imposed are quite high as I go through my notes, this is only 40 pages in around 317ZB.
So in essence it doesn't matter what Limitations 317ZG has because all it is asking you to do is not do something that you wouldn't do in the first place: Knowingly design a weakness into your hardware or software. They don't want backdoor access, they want to be completely integrated into your software and hardware stack. Orwellian isn't enough to describe it.
Onto the AC's point.
Here's the flaw in the law: The USA pretends to own the internet so Australian politicians can't order-around offshore corporations. This means Facebook and Apple can disable government spying by closing their Australian offices and serving Australian customers from a place that doesn't enact Australian law.
As you start to get to the end of the legislation you will find the hooks where the other four eyes can request access to these powers and exert them over business under intelligence sharing agreements where other Acts are modified. It goes like this.
As Australia does not have a Bill of Human Rights it has traditionally relied on the activism of its populace to not slip into a police state as a consequence of being a participatory democracy. This has allowed the Australian Government to pass laws that could not constitutionally pass in the US,UK,NZ or Canada, thus gradually chipping away at the intrinsic rights Australians had.
So, the way those other countries can access those powers is by requesting A
As much grandstanding and high handedness they try to do the fact of the matter is that Australia is the bitch of the United States. It's been a known and open fact since the US bent Whitlam over their knee and gave him a spanking.
I hate to agree with your trolling truth, but you are right. Whitlam was Australia's Washington and still managed to pass over 200 peices of legislation in the time he had.
The question is what the US uses Australia for? and the answer is to trial methods and laws to subvert US citizens. So whilst you are right to criticise Austalian's many of them aren't willing participants to the US finding ways to rape them and US citizens as a result. So you maybe watching Australian's getting raped now, but your next.
> The government claims that encrypted communications are "increasingly being used by terrorist groups and organized criminals to avoid detection and disruption," without citing evidence
I know it isn't popular to say that a claim should be accepted without evidence, but I think it would be ignorant to assume that more and more terrorist groups and organized criminals are not using encrypted communications.
The point is that the law won't stop those groups as they will simply write their own software and use their own encryption methods. It is the ordinary citizen trying to manage their life that is the target for these laws despite the government's claims to the contrary.
Exactly! Though you might be interested to know that all of the five eyes countries have had their anti-terrorism acts (like patriot and homeland security) lifted from the Soviet criminal code but go far further than the soviets ever could because our technology is more capable and ubiquitous.
These laws are a complete betrayal of any notion of democracy that our grandfathers fought for in the world wars. This is the stuff they fought against. Our governments don't have to ask for our "Papers Please" because they already have more than they need.
How long do you really think it will take before someone with access to the escrow store decides to sell a bunch of keys?
No doubt China would have a list of all the keys they wanted inside a year - and probably not illegally, either.
This is precisely the point that government miss. Fraud committed against ordinary citizens in pursuit of their intelligence objective. Fraud has no impact on the government and they don't care if you are defrauded.
I'm sure that Apple, like Google, has more than one set of master keys. However under this law Apple would be compelled to comply which would then result in law enforcement is all five eyes countries having access to that "key group" under the Echelon agreement. Over time, intelligence agencies would continue to gather and share those keys.
Under this law if an American comes to Australia, the US can request an investigation of that individual and secure keys for key groups in the states. An American citizen can be jailed until they co-operate and Apple fined repeatedly until they do as well.
The stakes are high, if this law is passed in Australia, it will affect all western countries signed to intelligence sharing agreement.
The goal of politicians is to appeal to the voters
Exactly. They scream this is for the pedophiles and terrorists to appeal to the emotional reaction, then high five each other when the electorate realizes the politicians were talking about the entire population.
Anyone and everyone in tech understands the nature of encryption. It's so sad that politicians don't.
Like a hammer, the politician's only tool is law.
At some point, some government is going to pass a shitty version of this law, and then, the real show down begins.
As Australia does not have a bill of human rights this law is being trialed here to see if it can be passed in the UK,US,NZ and Canada, so the real showdown is now. If you are in one of these countries then this law will be heading your way next if it is passed in Australia.
My advice to you, if you are in one of these countries is to examine the law for yourself. It seems to be crafted well enough to avoid constitutional objections of the US and UK.
After my initial submission to parliament I've continued to analyze this Bill. My friends are interested in this however many of them didn't know what they could do, so I wrote this for them, detailing progress so far. I hope this helps anyone else trying to fight this really bad law.
Greetings Friends,
Thank you all for your good will and support in replying to my first email. Thank you for tolerating a mass email. Considering some of the question I got back I thought I would update you all about how this bad law is progressing. I'll attempt to answer your questions so that everyone is kept informed.
Questions One friend suggested that he left the Communist states to escape this kind of surveillance.
Where it differs is that the Stasi only had capability to monitor 40 phone calls at a time. With modern technology it is quite easy to monitor every person by adapting the apps on our phones we use, when we talk to an AI (like Siri) or, friends on them.
Another friend pointed out that our Attorney General is making representations to the UK,US,NZ and Canadian Governments to pass these laws.
The issue for us is that corporate information technology has no interest in investing in countries that can potentially interfere with their operations. This is a direct attack on employment opportunities in Australia and will drive a lot of investment in Australia's economy to Singapore. This is a direct attack on employment opportunities in Australia.
What can these guys do with this law?
Well I haven't completed all of the analysis however this is what I've learned so far. Your phone, computer, tablet, home router and any vehicle computers can all be utilised to gather data on an individual. The telecommunications providers, the companies behind the websites you use can all be compelled to spy on you. Everything you do can be monitored. These are Front Door security holes, intended and by design.
This law also exposes Australian citizens to the laws from other countries, I've still getting my head around to how far it goes.
How will this affect my business?
Your business can be compelled to cooperate with the government to monitor individual. If you take a position where you protect privacy of your clients you are exposed to the liability for the government's actions. The govt can compel you to alter project deployments and comply with in a deadline. They can alter scope at will and your business is responsible for maintaining govt infrastructure until they no longer need it. Penalties exceed $250,000 per instance in addition to liability.
Is anyone else involved in this?
Yes, to my relief more and more people and organisations are becoming aware of this. Privacy focused organisations have started shifting their attention, which attracted the attention of some companies like Google and Apple. To my surprise Telstra, the NBN joined in the fight so that gives you some idea about the level of interference they anticipate. Some State government departments also starting to raise objections. I was in among the other private citizens that wrote objections to this bill. We need all the help we can get.
What can I do?
I think the best description is with Digital Rights Watch:
They provide a short script on how you can interact with Labor Senators and voice your concerns. Feel free to use any of the information I've provided.
Slashdot Mirror
I was recently stopped for extra screening.
By a muslim woman for an explosive check? It's not the age I'm pointing out, just that it seems like one giant wind up of western culture so that we're always just below the threshold of going crazy and the absurdity of it all.
Another thing is that if global warming is a problem that needs a solution RIGHT NOW then we need nuclear power.
I think the main problem with your argument is that you don't have all the facts and refuse any given to you. Therefore your statements don't have any credibility.
One problem here is that both natural gas and nuclear plants also rely on heat exchangers, and there's no reason this material can't be used to boost their efficiency, too.
I don't see a problem here.
The material would have to be tested for how it behaves under Neutron bombardment.. That's the thing that limits the life of all nuclear reactors to a few decades. The older they get the more brittle the reactor vessel becomes and the more likely they will have a Loss Of Cooling Accident or LOCA. That the reason a lot of utilities opt to shut them down early.
Solar is fashionable.
The sun is always stylish, I've noticed it's always so radiant.
Solar power is getting a lot of backing right now from government funding, private funding, and just general popularity.
Not according to the 2005 US Energy Act. Solar can't access any funding through it the way Oil, coal and Nuclear does.
Solar has to get its funding through small business funding. You can check the Act yourself to verify those facts. Sec 600-635 and 946, IIRC.
If they can get the people in natural gas and nuclear convinced it will help them too then they can secure more funding.
Well the great thing about gas is that you can convert Nuclear power plants to Gas and use the existing infrastructure (turbines and grid attachments). This material is more than likely for that purpose than it is for solar power, even though it will find a good application there.
Solar power is expensive, they admit this in the article. Solar power is intermittent, again they admit this in the article. Solar power takes a lot of land and other resources. Solar also requires a favorable geography and climate to compete.
Nuclear power is expensive. Nuclear power is intermittent. Nuclear power takes a lot of land and other resources. Nuclear also requires a favorable geography and climate to compete.
Also Nuclear need special liability clauses in law to exist, it requires huge amounts of subsides to deliver incentives for utilities to build them. Nuclear produces huge amount of radio-effluents, Nuclear produces low energy return, Nuclear produces huge amounts of mine tailings.
Worst of all, Nuclear power hurts puppies.
These do not apply to nuclear and natural gas. I thought the goal was to find viable alternatives to coal power to improve air quality, provide reliable energy, and reduce CO2. The goal should not be making solar power viable, since there are other means to replace coal.
Solar is a good investment. It is low risk and less capital intensive than many other power investments. So despite all of the downsides and lack of subsidies it is still attracting investors, which is all a good sign. More than likely it is a much simpler investment than Nuclear power.
However it is wind power that is really starting to hammer Nuclear because it is a much more scalable technology.
They've taken their eyes off the prize. This should not be about making solar power the winner, it should be about making coal the loser.
One clear application is converting the heat exchangers in Nuclear Power plants to natural gas. This is not necessarily an anti-nuclear thing, as I know you like to frame it, but an answer to what to do with a lot of secondary nuclear infrastructure that is still serviceable as the reactors themselves are retired.
No one really loses. In a way it is a win for Nuclear because at least utilities will have a way to keep those facilities profitable and maintain the containment of the spent fuel as it takes at least a decade to cool. It's simply the way I suggest you see how easy it is to replace nuclear power with natural gas because it is a good sense option that is easy to implement. We need simple climat
the application is as likely to be nuclear plants as solar plants.
You would have to account for what neutron bombardment in nuclear plants would do to this material before it could be used there.
So what is this stuff? Is it an alloy, a ceramic or some sort of composite?
Also in the article is the potential use in making better natural gas and nuclear power plants.
Also, as more and more nuclear reactors are retired converting them to natural gas as their turbine and grid infrastructure is already built. That's a huge amount of embedded energy invested in concrete and construction logistics building that infrastructure. There is a huge opportunity for climate wins by re-using this infrastructure and converting it to natural gas.
Plus operators or former nuclear plant can still generate profit on sites where they store nuclear material. You may even be in a position to preheat the water with waste heat from the spent fuel cooling ponds.
Solar-thermal is dying and this material is unlikely to revive it.
I think this will come in pretty handy for the molten salt solar.
Solar PV has dramatically declined in price, and is likely to continue to do so as manufacturing improves.
That doesn't mean that the two compete. PV appears to be in the peak power market during the day and molten solar at night when people are home.
Solar-thermal requires more maintenance, and requires direct sun.
Yes. It is solar power.
Solar-thermal isn't cost competitive, and has far less room for improvement, since mirrors and pipes are mature tech.
Isn't cost competitive with what?
The plants produce four times the energy when you double their size there are plenty of place you could put these in deserts.
Unlike PV, it will produce no power on overcast days.
That's why we need to build huge amounts of them in different places. The sun is always shining somewhere. That's also why you build lot's of wind, geothermal and wave power.
The only significant advantage of solar-thermal is that it can store heat and time-shift power generation.
Which is exactly why you use it.
I think all these new techniques for producing energy are really exciting developments. We are at the dawn of when power grids are getting more intelligence in them to move power around. Technologies like these are going to play a big part in that.
I thought the TSA give facials already.
It's the anals that everybody is nervous about.
I won't be sexually molested by a government goon. So until the TSA goes away I won't go anywhere my Tacoma won't take me.
My friend, a 35 year old white male with tattoos, got checked for explosives at an airport by a middle eastern female security guard. You really have to appreciate the irony of that.
I doubt /. has escaped unscathed.
All of this can be described as Ass Access
With so many pretending that they actually know how the economy works please find US Federal Reserve Act.
I'm still trying to figure it out myself. Somehow though, I think presidents are more the tail than they are the dog.
This represent Slashdot's support of Unicode:
There's supposed to be a poop emoji at the end of my sentence above. It displays when I'm in the textarea but disappears when I click on preview.
Works fine for me.
Thank you!
Even the government appointed overseer of the government is concerned. https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
Thank you!
Wouldn't that mean that they cannot ask companies to build backdoors as that would weaken their systems?
No. First of all they don't want back door access through flaws, the law is essentially demand individuals and business to give them front door access designed into the hardware and software stack. It is blatant stupidity because it will be impossible for them to protect their systems from being compromised by black hats and eventually organised crime. The Government is proposing powers of such gargantuan scope it will be impossible for them to keep it under control, how imposing and intrusive it is, how utterly lazy the government is to even ask for these powers. Essentially this what I see that is relevant to what you are asking:
Division 1 Items list the entire OSI stack and the hardware stack. Whoever was advising them on the law had enough technical know how to include everything. There were no gaps in either hardware or software stack were the govt is demanding powers. No manufacturer or software supplier escapes. They can get access to the keyboard hardware if they wish, but they want it easy. All O.S vendors will have to comply.
No website escapes if you interact with any mass group of people or a customer base that the govt wants information about if you are a designated communications communications provider.
In terms of actions business will have to comply with if they have eligible activities every part of the supply chain is covered from creating components to installers. They can all be issues with a Technical assistance request or Technical Capability Notice. In the "Listed acts or things" Govt can demand removal of encryption, proprietary design information about your software and how it works, demand you install their servers, force data formats and integration assistance finally leaving business to maintain their servers. After that the business is then responsible for maintaining access to intercept equipment whilst hiding it and concealing access.
Jail time, heavy fines and exposure to liability for businesses and individuals who don't co-operate.
Division 2 discusses exactly how government will disrupt the businesses who co-operate and the specific steps that have to executed to comply. They can change the specification, the scope and responsibilities of those assigned, demands assistance and has anti by-pass clauses. The fine imposed are quite high as I go through my notes, this is only 40 pages in around 317ZB.
So in essence it doesn't matter what Limitations 317ZG has because all it is asking you to do is not do something that you wouldn't do in the first place: Knowingly design a weakness into your hardware or software. They don't want backdoor access, they want to be completely integrated into your software and hardware stack. Orwellian isn't enough to describe it.
Onto the AC's point.
As you start to get to the end of the legislation you will find the hooks where the other four eyes can request access to these powers and exert them over business under intelligence sharing agreements where other Acts are modified. It goes like this.
As Australia does not have a Bill of Human Rights it has traditionally relied on the activism of its populace to not slip into a police state as a consequence of being a participatory democracy. This has allowed the Australian Government to pass laws that could not constitutionally pass in the US,UK,NZ or Canada, thus gradually chipping away at the intrinsic rights Australians had.
So, the way those other countries can access those powers is by requesting A
but your next.
What about my next? It's unclear what you meant.
Fair call. You're next!
As much grandstanding and high handedness they try to do the fact of the matter is that Australia is the bitch of the United States. It's been a known and open fact since the US bent Whitlam over their knee and gave him a spanking.
I hate to agree with your trolling truth, but you are right. Whitlam was Australia's Washington and still managed to pass over 200 peices of legislation in the time he had.
The question is what the US uses Australia for? and the answer is to trial methods and laws to subvert US citizens. So whilst you are right to criticise Austalian's many of them aren't willing participants to the US finding ways to rape them and US citizens as a result. So you maybe watching Australian's getting raped now, but your next.
> The government claims that encrypted communications are "increasingly being used by terrorist groups and organized criminals to avoid detection and disruption," without citing evidence
I know it isn't popular to say that a claim should be accepted without evidence, but I think it would be ignorant to assume that more and more terrorist groups and organized criminals are not using encrypted communications.
The point is that the law won't stop those groups as they will simply write their own software and use their own encryption methods. It is the ordinary citizen trying to manage their life that is the target for these laws despite the government's claims to the contrary.
Exactly! Though you might be interested to know that all of the five eyes countries have had their anti-terrorism acts (like patriot and homeland security) lifted from the Soviet criminal code but go far further than the soviets ever could because our technology is more capable and ubiquitous.
These laws are a complete betrayal of any notion of democracy that our grandfathers fought for in the world wars. This is the stuff they fought against. Our governments don't have to ask for our "Papers Please" because they already have more than they need.
How long do you really think it will take before someone with access to the escrow store decides to sell a bunch of keys?
No doubt China would have a list of all the keys they wanted inside a year - and probably not illegally, either.
This is precisely the point that government miss. Fraud committed against ordinary citizens in pursuit of their intelligence objective. Fraud has no impact on the government and they don't care if you are defrauded.
I'm sure that Apple, like Google, has more than one set of master keys. However under this law Apple would be compelled to comply which would then result in law enforcement is all five eyes countries having access to that "key group" under the Echelon agreement. Over time, intelligence agencies would continue to gather and share those keys.
Under this law if an American comes to Australia, the US can request an investigation of that individual and secure keys for key groups in the states. An American citizen can be jailed until they co-operate and Apple fined repeatedly until they do as well.
The stakes are high, if this law is passed in Australia, it will affect all western countries signed to intelligence sharing agreement.
The goal of politicians is to appeal to the voters
Exactly. They scream this is for the pedophiles and terrorists to appeal to the emotional reaction, then high five each other when the electorate realizes the politicians were talking about the entire population.
Anyone and everyone in tech understands the nature of encryption. It's so sad that politicians don't.
Like a hammer, the politician's only tool is law.
At some point, some government is going to pass a shitty version of this law, and then, the real show down begins.
As Australia does not have a bill of human rights this law is being trialed here to see if it can be passed in the UK,US,NZ and Canada, so the real showdown is now. If you are in one of these countries then this law will be heading your way next if it is passed in Australia.
My advice to you, if you are in one of these countries is to examine the law for yourself. It seems to be crafted well enough to avoid constitutional objections of the US and UK.
After my initial submission to parliament I've continued to analyze this Bill. My friends are interested in this however many of them didn't know what they could do, so I wrote this for them, detailing progress so far. I hope this helps anyone else trying to fight this really bad law.
Greetings Friends,
Thank you all for your good will and support in replying to my first email. Thank you for tolerating a mass email. Considering some of the question I got back I thought I would update you all about how this bad law is progressing. I'll attempt to answer your questions so that everyone is kept informed.
Questions
One friend suggested that he left the Communist states to escape this kind of surveillance.
Where it differs is that the Stasi only had capability to monitor 40 phone calls at a time. With modern technology it is quite easy to monitor every person by adapting the apps on our phones we use, when we talk to an AI (like Siri) or, friends on them.
Another friend pointed out that our Attorney General is making representations to the UK,US,NZ and Canadian Governments to pass these laws.
The issue for us is that corporate information technology has no interest in investing in countries that can potentially interfere with their operations. This is a direct attack on employment opportunities in Australia and will drive a lot of investment in Australia's economy to Singapore. This is a direct attack on employment opportunities in Australia.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/...
What can these guys do with this law?
Well I haven't completed all of the analysis however this is what I've learned so far. Your phone, computer, tablet, home router and any vehicle computers can all be utilised to gather data on an individual. The telecommunications providers, the companies behind the websites you use can all be compelled to spy on you. Everything you do can be monitored. These are Front Door security holes, intended and by design.
This law also exposes Australian citizens to the laws from other countries, I've still getting my head around to how far it goes.
How will this affect my business?
Your business can be compelled to cooperate with the government to monitor individual. If you take a position where you protect privacy of your clients you are exposed to the liability for the government's actions. The govt can compel you to alter project deployments and comply with in a deadline. They can alter scope at will and your business is responsible for maintaining govt infrastructure until they no longer need it. Penalties exceed $250,000 per instance in addition to liability.
Is anyone else involved in this?
Yes, to my relief more and more people and organisations are becoming aware of this. Privacy focused organisations have started shifting their attention, which attracted the attention of some companies like Google and Apple. To my surprise Telstra, the NBN joined in the fight so that gives you some idea about the level of interference they anticipate. Some State government departments also starting to raise objections. I was in among the other private citizens that wrote objections to this bill. We need all the help we can get.
What can I do?
I think the best description is with Digital Rights Watch:
https://digitalrightswatch.org...
They provide a short script on how you can interact with Labor Senators and voice your concerns. Feel free to use any of the information I've provided.
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?