[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Craig Askings]

Does it have an ip address?

Craig



On 30/05/2010, at 2:53 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at internode.com.au>  
wrote:

>
> On 30/05/2010, at 2:10 PM, <craig at askings.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> if it is attatched to the PSTN or a dsl service then it is still  
>> counts as
>> being part of a telecomuncations system.
>
> My TV is connected to an ethernet switch in a DSL modem.   Is that  
> part of the telecommunications system as well?
>
> MMC
>
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Bevan Slattery <
>>> Bevan.Slattery at staff.pipenetworks.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Section 7 of the TIA Act states:
>>>>
>>>>  (1) A person shall not:
>>>>      (a) intercept;
>>>>      (b) authorize, suffer or permit another person to intercept;  
>>>> or
>>>>      (c) do any act or thing that will enable him or her or another
>>>> person to intercept;
>>>>      a communication passing over a telecommunications system.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps a few definitions are in order...
>>>
>>> From http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/taaa1979410/s7.html
>>> :
>>>
>>> *"telecommunications system" means:
>>>
>>>                    (a)  a telecommunications network that is within
>>> Australia; or
>>>
>>>                    (b)  a telecommunications network that is partly
>>> within
>>> Australia, but only to the extent that the network is within  
>>> Australia; *
>>>
>>> and in turn :
>>>
>>> *"telecommunications network" means a system, or series of  
>>> systems, for
>>> carrying  communications  by means of guided or unguided  
>>> electromagnetic
>>> energy or both, but does not include a system, or series of  
>>> systems, for
>>> carrying communications  solely by means of radiocommunication. *
>>>
>>>
>>> Now IANAL, however it would seem to me that based on those  
>>> definitions the
>>> "interception" of SSID and Wifi MAC addresses would NOT be covered  
>>> by that
>>> act, as these are part of a system "for carrying communications  
>>> solely by
>>> means of radiocommunication".
>>>
>>> Data is a little different, as in that context it's possible  
>>> (probable?)
>>> that the "series of systems" part comes into play as the data  
>>> would be
>>> expected to cross not just the Wifi "system", but also the greater
>>> non-radio
>>> Internet.
>>>
>>> Scott.
>