[AusNOG] Victorian Police - internal assistance??

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Wed, 2017-08-30 at 11:14 +1000, Matt Perkins wrote:
> I had the WA Police contact us once asking for details for an IP that  
> was not even with us. When I sent them a polite fax (it was fax back 
> then) that the IP was with XYZ ISP not us. They sent me a stern letter 
> saying if i did not co-operate they would get a court order.

Back in the day I used to get regular requests from QLD Police asking if X
or Y (normally came through as a list of names) was a customer of our ISP.
Pretty sure it was a group investigating child sex crimes. They seemed to
be looking for which ISP's a person might be using so that they could get
appropriate court orders to monitor what people were doing online
(assumedly someone had committed a crime and they were looking to gather
evidence).

Although asking for details for information on an IP you had nothing to do
with seems a bit of a stretch. As far back as the mid 1990's most police
forces have had competent computer crimes units they could have sought
advice/support from to help them request the right information from the
right people. It also seems a bit odd that wanted information without a
court order, since mostly you can't hand over that kind of information
without a court order (it's not that you are trying to impede and
investigation, but that you have to have your butt covered legally).

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Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>
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