<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 5 Mar 2015, at 10:50 am, Rod Veith <<a href="mailto:rod@rb.net.au" class="">rod@rb.net.au</a>> wrote:<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I don’t think you should be happy with anything about the proposed metadata scheme. Less outraged maybe.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">If these people think you are happy about anything, it is game set and match to them, thank you ball boys.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Also have a good think about what your response will be in two years time when ASIO and AFP decide that what they have already isn’t enough, and they want more.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It is <i style="font-weight: bold;" class="">inevitable</i> that they will eventually want some kind of real-time live-feed into networks. Anyone who has had discussions with them about interception capabilities knows that that’s their ideal model. They have a track record of getting literally every single thing they ever want, regardless of how woefully inadequate their results prove to be, so why wouldn’t they start banging the drum about that too?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>AFP in particular is living proof that there is no magnitude of failure sufficient to cause the Government to start pushing back. Regardless of how badly they screw up, our pissant Attorneys-General will always bend over and kow-tow to their demands.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So: When they come knocking, is it going to catch you all by surprise? Data retention has been bubbling away since 2007 and it appears to have caught virtually all of you unawares, and almost none of you have played any part whatsoever in any of the campaigns against it. Will the next outrage come at you like headlights towards a bunny, or will you be ready with an organized industry-wide response?</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div> - mark</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>