On Thu, Oct 30, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/29/fbi-powers-hacking-computers-...
The FBI <http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/fbi> is attempting to persuade an obscure regulatory body in Washington to change its rules of engagement in order to seize significant new powers to hack into and carry out surveillance of computers throughout the US and around the world.
Australia's counterpart ASIO unfortunately got it passed: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/terror-laws-clear-senat... "Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists and whistleblowers will face up to 10 years' jail for disclosing classified information." Here's the kicker: "Anyone - including journalists, whistleblowers and bloggers - who "recklessly" discloses "information ... [that] relates to a special intelligence operation" faces up to 10 years' jail. Any operation can be declared "special" by an authorised ASIO officer" What would be great to see would be if all Australian journalists banded together to counter the new laws, by self-imposing a gag order on _all_ information that the government wanted to put out. In other words, stop being a conduit for government propaganda i.e. no questions, no interviews, no articles, no opinion pieces etc. and _only_ give air time to those who opposed the new laws. This would be even better if we were in an election cycle. Unfortunately however, the FBI will get it what they want one way or another. I, for one, welcome our new surveillance overlords /s Alfie -- Alfie John alfiej@fastmail.fm