[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

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.