[AusNOG] Legal Challenge To Meta Data Laws

[Noel Butler]

On 29/09/2015 14:16, Paul Wilkins wrote: 

> The BSA relies on the Telco Act for its definition of service provider. In the final analysis, it comes down to whether you provide communications over directed electromagnetic radiation.

Disagree, I'm not repeating as to why, its in archives and I hate
repeating myself :) 

> Beyond this, it's dependent what CAC can bully you into.

CAC didnt bully me into anything, I've always kept what they want and
some, my email servers logs go back to 2008 and I have no plans on
shrinking it. 

What I find dangerous is the so called experts who are running around
with extreme FUD, no, actually I'd go further to say deliberate lies in
trying to scare people that ISPs must retain DNS lookups, which is utter
bullshit and they know it, sadly the gullible media of course fall for
it, in the old days journos would verify claims by going to the horses
mouth, these days, well, you only have to watch the nightly news
broadcasts to see how much they rely on facebook for their stories, sad
really, and really sad. 

There are valid gripes about this law, but if you start far fetching,
you lose total credibility and will not be taken seriously again, so
next time you make a submission to govt, they'll classify you as in the
crackpot list and wont even bother reading it. 
  
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