Australia's NSA plans to hack Australian PCs

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Also, here's the former head of the ASD warning of the dangers of proceeding in this direction: https://www.smh.com.au/national/spying-on-our-own-citizens-d...

If you know they are criminal, this implies they are convicted by a judge. Given such a scenario, you simply seize & order whatever you want to read.

Unless, you'd like to bypass the judicial / the rule of law. Then you do as they propose.

Don't the current 5-Eyes practices already include all of this?

"I'll spy on your people, you will spy on my people."

Yes but this goes even beyond just spying and gives them the ability to offensively hack citizens PCs.

From the other link I posted:

"ASD has legal and policy coverage to do offensive cyber operations against selected foreign targets. But this is not intelligence – it goes well beyond gathering information and into the realm of actively disrupting people or organisations overseas by damaging their data and computers. But doing this in Australia is an entirely different matter.

It was disturbing to hear Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton say last year this will be done with the necessary warrants. There are no warrants for computer or data disruption in Australia – it is just plain illegal. Warrants under the Telecommunications Interception and Access Act approved by a judge or the Attorney General only permit interception and access for the purpose of gathering information/intelligence. There is no equivalent law for computer disruption,except for the law that says it is illegal – no exceptions. So we are talking here about a whole new legal framework."

That's the former head of the ASD warning everyone.

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