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The station is empty. Even the station staff have gone home. Maybe I was leaving work a little late on the night I took this.
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Any Australian government of any persuasion that attempted to construct in secret a surveillance scheme for monitoring the day-to-day activities of its citizens would almost certainly be destroyed the next time its citizens were allowed near a ballot box. Assuming, of course, it planned to allow them near the ballot box ever again.
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Telstra has signed an $11 billion deal with NBN Co to transfer customers from its copper network onto the National Broadband Network's fibre network and share Telstra's infrastructure. (So, why was this announced on a Sunday? Probably so if it went down badly, not as many people would notice?)
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The internet censorship policy has joined the government's list of "politically toxic subjects" and will almost certainly be shelved until after the federal election, Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam says. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – already facing a voter backlash over several perceived policy failures – is expected to call the election before the end of the year and the feeling of many in Canberra is that next week will be the last sitting week of Parliament.
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US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US "national asset". Local lobby groups and academics have rounded on the plan, saying that, rather than combat terrorists, it would actually do them "the biggest favour ever" by terrorising the rest of the world, which is now heavily reliant on cyberspace.
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Be very afraid, Big Brother is coming to the Nanny State. Of all the bizarre policy decisions, this one has to be the most extreme. ZDNet broke the story last week that the Federal Government is looking at bringing in laws that would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs), like Telstra and Optus, to document and save subscriber's web browsing history.
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AUSTRALIA is one of only two developed countries where the take-up of broadband internet connections declined last year, new figures show.
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IT READS like a James Bond novel: an enigmatic white-haired computer hacker; a soldier turned whistleblower; secret government correspondence; and the world's most powerful country desperate to contain the situation.
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More hype about Google collecting data from Wi-Fi networks. Remember people, bank transactions should be over an SSL connection, so anyone collecting wireless traffic will only get encrypted data.
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THE US Federal Trade Commission will investigate whether Apple's business practices harm competition in the market for software used on mobile devices, people familiar with the situation said.
