[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[craig at askings.com.au]

if it is attatched to the PSTN or a dsl service then it is still counts as
being part of a telecomuncations system.

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.
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