OT - Australian cyber crime bill
This is for those who have not heard about this. If you
have or are not interested, please delete/skip.
Last month, soon after the September 11 attacks in the US,
Australia passed into law a cyber crime bill which had been
under debate for some time. Like a previous bill, passed in 1999
to regulate content at sites hosted by local ISPs, it appears to be
a case of using a hammer to crack a peanut.
For those interested, a digest of the bill is at
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bd/2001-02/02bd048.htm
Going by the letter of the bill, even having software like
nmap or snort on one's own PC can be construed as an offence.
Sam
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(Sam Varghese)
http://www.gnubies.com
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