[AusNOG] metadata conference on SkyNews

[Robert Hudson]

There's an interview (unedited transcript) with Malcolm Turnbull published
in today's iTnews which may be of interest:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/390859,qa-malcolm-turnbull-on-data-retention.aspx

According to Mr Turnbull, they just want to compel carriers to keep the
record of customer-to-IP allocation record for a minimum of two years.
 He's pretty clear that he doesn't see any requirement for keeping what
users actually do with that IP address to be kept - he states that this is
a matter for law enforcement agencies to determine separately, and the
reason they want the customer IP allocation data kept is to tie a visit to
a site/service which is determined through standard police work back to an
end-user should that be required at some point.

Of course, anyone doing anything "naughty" would be an idiot to do so
without somehow obscuring their source IP address to start with (Tor, VPN,
etc), so I still don't see that what they're saying they want to keep will
be particularly useful, but at this stage, if Mr Turnbull is to be
believed, this particular issue, at this point, does seem to have been
either blown out of all proportion, or the politicians have backed down
REAL fast after realising just how much of a backlash their announcement
received.  I won't comment on which I perceive to me more likely. :)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20140811/fd82977b/attachment.html>