[AusNOG] Metadata retention... it's now (almost) a thing

['Matt Palmer']

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:52:07PM +1100, Paul Julian wrote:
> They would only catch small time script kiddies with MAC address, anybody
> who knows what they are doing won't be using their machine or will be
> using different ones all the time, I mean seriously, busting somebody
> based on MAC address would be small time stuff surely, sure it might get
> the people pirating movies and porn etc but this bill is supposed to be to
> save the country from the terr0rists isn't it ??  I really can't see a
> person like this who would go to elaborate lengths to not get caught being
> busted by using the same MAC address multiple times.

Opsec is hard.  Not everyone knows everything about everything.

- Matt