[AusNOG] Conroy's net filter still alive and kicking

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Andrew Fort wrote:

> Yeah.  I guess as an industry we'd better stop saying "disk is cheap"
> or the geniuses in government will think it doesn't cost us anything
> to do their snooping of our users :/.

Disk is cheap but backing up all that data off-site isn't.  There are a 
lot of hidden costs in the type of data retention governments are starting 
to ask for.

Cheers,

Rob

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