On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Glen Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdt@gdt.id.au" target="_blank">gdt@gdt.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> - a proposal for mandatory retention of data...<br>
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Oh, you mean a proposal to build a cache of data containing everyone's credit<br>
and other information. Nothing can go wrong with that.<br>
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Seriously, the government is essentially betting your money that their security<br>
can stand up to the russian mafia, without even one small slip-up.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Actually, it's significantly worse than that. The government would be betting that the security of /every/ ISP (not the government itself) tasked with retaining the data of their customers is invulnerable to cracking by anyone. While most ISPs are quite good (for various values of 'good') at providing connectivity services to their customers, there is no reason to believe that even the most well-resourced of them necessarily have equivalent expertise in data security. Telstra, with arguably the deepest pockets of all Australian ISPs, routinely and embarrassingly leaks confidential customer data.<br>
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Jessica<br><br><br></div></div>