Australia's CIA is making waves. News.com.au is reporting that ASIO wants permission to break into citizens computer in order to help find and track terrorists.
From the wipe(1) man page:
People should better think of their computing devices as facilities lended by the DHS.^WASIO.
There. Fixed that for you.
This is such a stupid idea that I don't understand how it even got started. Imagine using grandma's computer to send phishing email to a terror cell. Imagine that the terror cell has even a moderate amount of cyber sophistication and detects the phish and traces it down to its origin. Guess who the terror cell is going to retaliate against? Hint: it probably won't be ASIO workers. I liken this idea to using human shields...not the sort of thing that a free democracy should be doing.
From the wipe(1) man page:
People should better think of their computing devices as facilities lended by the DHS.^WASIO.
There. Fixed that for you.
This is such a stupid idea that I don't understand how it even got started. Imagine using grandma's computer to send phishing email to a terror cell. Imagine that the terror cell has even a moderate amount of cyber sophistication and detects the phish and traces it down to its origin. Guess who the terror cell is going to retaliate against? Hint: it probably won't be ASIO workers. I liken this idea to using human shields...not the sort of thing that a free democracy should be doing.
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