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Submission + - Confirmed: Germany Monitors Skype, Google Mail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook chat (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @09:48AM

hypnosec writes: German Government has went a bit too far trying to be transparent and has inadvertently revealed that German police monitors Skype, Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook chat as and when necessary. The revelations come as the German Government let out figures of expenses incurred by the Federal Ministry of the Interior following a parliamentary inquiry, which were spotted by the annalist blog. The pages contain a whole lot of tables and as many would find those boring, some pages reveal something very startling. On page 34 and page 37 of the report line item 486 and 265 respectively, represent decoding software for Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail for prevention and investigation.

Submission + - Government Censors Draft Snooping Laws (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by coolstoryhansel on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @09:32AM

coolstoryhansel writes: Stating that release of the draft legislation is not in the public interest [PDF] because it would prejudice decision making processes already in train, the Attorney General's Department has denied the release of the draft laws that would see wide-scale dragnet surveillance implemented along with an expansion of law enforcement powers for the purposes of 'national security'.

Serkowski, speaking for the Pirate Party who lodged the FOI request labelled the Department response as "disgraceful and troubling" saying the decision is "completely trashing any semblance or notion of transparency or participative democratic process of policy development."

Submission + - Government Redacts Anti-Piracy Consultation Paper (delimiter.com.au) 1

Submitted by coolstoryhansel on Sunday October 16, 2011 @10:39AM

coolstoryhansel writes: So, you might have heard the Australian Attorney-General was considering the implementation of a streamlined process of getting private information about subscribers from ISPs?

Well perhaps not. The Attorney-General's Department have now apparently redacted that document, removing all mention of the controversial proposal, without telling anyone.

Comment Re:Arrr! (Score 1) 183

by coolstoryhansel on Monday October 03, 2011 @07:14PM (#37594512) Attached to: Mass Piracy Lawsuits Come To Australia

Yeah, you could do that or you can join for free and contribute something by advocating for saner laws and stronger civil liberties.

Comment Listen Kim... (Score 1) 11

by coolstoryhansel on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:11AM (#37587838) Attached to: Australia Reviews Tier-Two Software Patents

Exclude software from the patent system. Period.

Comment Arrr! (Score 3, Insightful) 183

by coolstoryhansel on Sunday October 02, 2011 @11:26PM (#37587018) Attached to: Mass Piracy Lawsuits Come To Australia

Join an organisation like the Pirate Party and help advocate for changes in the law. This sort of predatory litigation is only going to get worse because the law enables it.

Submission + - Secrete Messages Encoded in Bacteria (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @03:04PM

sciencehabit writes: Researchers have invented a new form of secret messaging using bacteria that make glowing proteins only under certain conditions. In addition to being useful to spies, the new technique could also allow companies to encode secret identifiers into crops, seeds, or other living commodities.

Submission + - Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP (sydsvenskan.se) 1

Submitted by WillDraven on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @10:36AM

WillDraven writes: Torrentfreak is reporting that The Swedish Pirate Party has launched an ISP. Starting with 100 residents in the housing organization LKF (Swedish) in the city of Lund, Pirate ISP hopes to gain 5% of the market in Lund before spreading to other markets. Headed by longtime Pirate Party member Gustav Nipe, seen giving an English interview about the ISP here, the company aims to provide internet service with the sort of guarantees one would expect from the Pirate Party. Most notable of these are the promises to keep no logs of subscriber activity and provide no data to law enforcement or private corporations. The original Swedish report on Sydsvenskan can be found here.

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