Expectation of privacy in public?

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 24 Sep 2001, at 15:33, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
> It's not a violation of US law for US agents to spy on 
> people in Australia, but it's almost certainly a violation 
> of Australian law.  Similarly, it's probably not a 
> violation of Australian law for Australian agents to 
> eavsdrop on people in California, but it's clearly a 
> violation of California law.

Cypherpunks are not the first to take advantage of 
jurisdictional arbitrage.

The Australian spys have the American spys perform their 
illegal-in-Australia acts for them, and the American spys
have the Australian spys perform their illegal-in-America
acts for them.

I predict you will have some difficulty extraditing an 
Australian spy for spying on people in California. 

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