This is a tricky one: If I have an ADSL modem connected to a separate WiFi AP and someone else has an ADSL router with in-built WiFi, then in one case it is part of the comms system and the other is not. But functionally, they are the same.<div>
<br></div><div>In 1979, an attached device was probably a phone or PABX or in rare cases a 300Baud modem.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craig@askings.com.au">craig@askings.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
if it is attatched to the PSTN or a dsl service then it is still counts as<br>
being part of a telecomuncations system.<br>
<br>
Craig<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Bevan Slattery <<br>
> <a href="mailto:Bevan.Slattery@staff.pipenetworks.com">Bevan.Slattery@staff.pipenetworks.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Section 7 of the TIA Act states:<br>
>><br>
>> (1) A person shall not:<br>
>> (a) intercept;<br>
>> (b) authorize, suffer or permit another person to intercept; or<br>
>> (c) do any act or thing that will enable him or her or another<br>
>> person to intercept;<br>
>> a communication passing over a telecommunications system.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Perhaps a few definitions are in order...<br>
><br>
> From <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/taaa1979410/s7.html" target="_blank">http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/taaa1979410/s7.html</a><br>
> :<br>
><br>
> *"telecommunications system" means:<br>
><br>
> (a) a telecommunications network that is within<br>
> Australia; or<br>
><br>
> (b) a telecommunications network that is partly<br>
> within<br>
> Australia, but only to the extent that the network is within Australia; *<br>
><br>
> and in turn :<br>
><br>
> *"telecommunications network" means a system, or series of systems, for<br>
> carrying communications by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic<br>
> energy or both, but does not include a system, or series of systems, for<br>
> carrying communications solely by means of radiocommunication. *<br>
><br>
><br>
> Now IANAL, however it would seem to me that based on those definitions the<br>
> "interception" of SSID and Wifi MAC addresses would NOT be covered by that<br>
> act, as these are part of a system "for carrying communications solely by<br>
> means of radiocommunication".<br>
><br>
> Data is a little different, as in that context it's possible (probable?)<br>
> that the "series of systems" part comes into play as the data would be<br>
> expected to cross not just the Wifi "system", but also the greater<br>
> non-radio<br>
> Internet.<br>
><br>
> Scott.<br>
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