Security issues -was- Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Applications on the melb-wireless network

[Clae]

>  > Yes, the encryption will need to improve
>
>Watch legal developments as well.
>
>  > A node having kiddie porn does in **no way guarantee** that the 
>nodes around
>>  it are guilty of broadcasting it.

AFAIK guilt ensues if the carrier has been informed of the content 
and not taken reasonable steps to prevent carriage or storage.  This 
provision was inserted into the anti-porn laws to protect ISPs.

The argument over whether this motivates *for* or *against* 
centralized organisation could go either way.  I would plump for 
"against".  Criminal acts by one or more nodes should not impact on 
the rest of the melbwireless community if at all possible.

>The data could have come on CD, on a
>>  wired network, on a roaming wireless node...  And being encrypted, unless
>>  someone is sitting there taking a copy of the network layer data, then it's
>>  going to be basically impossible to prove beyond any kind of reasonable
>>  doubt.
>
>Which ASIO will do they moment they smell a rat, and they probably WILL ANYWAY
>until they get the hang of what we are doing, just to be safe and sure.
>
>We are in heady times for this sort of power-to-the-people stuff.

In Australia right now:

ASIO can obtain a warrant to enter your system, retrieve and alter 
data, and remove any and all trace of their entry.

The Defense Signals Directorate can (as of this week) legally spy on 
communications between Australian citizens if they are deemed to be 
engaged in activities which (amongst other provisions) pose a threat 
to Australia's national security *or*economic*wellbeing*

Now what defines economic wellbeing?  The profitability of commercial 
telcos?  Woodchip exporters?  Arms manufacturers?  Nuclear waste dump 
consortia?  Organisers of World Economic Forums?

>GPS is not as accurate as you think.  No one will be able to find your house
>with just GPS co-ordinates.
>
>I think  :-/

accurate to one metre since the encryption was switched off.

>
>Dwayne
>
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