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Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'

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Re: Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'

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Post by __d »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #74
gumby wrote: post #18

> those who crack the codes could discover "some wonderful, uplifting messages". Let’s hope that one of them was, “Australia should be a republic”

I don't know much about Aussie politics, but is there more to becoming a republic than removing The Queen from her largely ceremonial role? I'm guessing the Governor-General she appoints would become democratically elected instead, but what other differences would there be?

That's the roadblock: there has to be a way to appoint the governor-general-replacement (aka president?) and no-one can quite agree on what that should be.

Let's not even think about maybe tweaking the powers of the role, or even codifying that any exercise of those powers should be transparently reported to the electorate (as per a recent/current scandal).

The fact that the political class controls the process of defining all these rules, and no-one trusts the political class to do what's right for the country (vs. right for them and/or their backers), means we're stuck with the current system, which is at least a more-or-less known quantity.

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Post by [deleted] »

googlryas wrote: post #75
bongobingo1 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its probably "fuck off we're full" in an attempt to self select for government agencies.

You got a lot of open space in the middle of your country. How about visas abound, but you have to go live in the NT.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

justatdotin wrote: post #70

Edward Snowden's revelations included the detail that back in 2008, the then-DSD sought to /give away/ bulk data on australian citizens to foreign spy agencies. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator... In response to the revelations of this attack on Australian democracy, launched by an agency tasked to defend it, australia's attorney general focused on declaring Mr Snowden a traitor.

If this is how they treat their own citizens, I'm honestly scared what they think is okay to do to a foreigner.

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Post by chadcmulligan »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #37
hilbert42 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you live here you soon realize the politicians and those who bask in the limelight aren't the ones in charge.

Who is?

Mostly the people who go to elite schools - Oxford/cambridge etc, that's the training ground, for better or worse, children of old money, and those of new money, with a polite sprinkle of everyman. It's not a permanent group though, some enter, some leave over time, money is the driver though, and the desire to be in control.

A loud representation that you can see in action are the children of trump, even with all their obvious faults they have access to multi billion dollar deals that few average people see. Murdoch et al is their propaganda arm, if you have an agenda you'd like to be in the public sphere and have lots of money, then you can use these to move public opinion in that direction.

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Post by shakna »

nailer wrote: post #51
shakna wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How long do they keep private calls and messages? 7-10 years, in practice. 2 years, in requirement. [0] [0] https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...

Hrm that link doesn't seem to be relevant: > … is not defined in the TIA Act but is generally understood to refer to information about a communication that is not the content or substance of a communication. I'm asking asking about content.

> The Act requires CSPs to preserve stored communications at the request of certain domestic agencies, or the Australian Federal Police acting on behalf of certain foreign countries, in advance of a warrant to access the information being issued.

> ...

> There are two types of preservation notices—domestic (‘which cover stored communications that might relate either to a contravention of certain Australian laws or to security’) and foreign (‘which cover stored communications that might relate to a contravention of certain foreign laws’).

> In turn, there are two types of domestic preservation notices—historic (‘which cover stored communications held by the carrier on a particular day’) and ongoing (‘which cover stored communications held by the carrier in a particular 30-day period’).

> A foreign preservation notice only covers stored communications held by the carrier on a particular day. The Ombudsman and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security will have oversight in relation to preservation notices.

Re: Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'

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Post by throwawaylinux »

barrysteve wrote: post #64
nickdothutton wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia has to “kowtow” to whoever is the dominant naval power. Once Britain, now the US, perhaps in the next 100 years it will be China.

In the next 100yrs the north polar ice will melt enough that China can go around the top to it's trading partners. The strait of Malacca next to Malaysia will stop being as critically important as it is now to China's oil imports. It's likely the SEA region will cool off, the action will move up north and all those subs we bought will go from AUKUS to AWKWARD. Aus just needs to cut costs and forward into quality (koa…

If the sea level rises by the projected 1.3m by 2100, what routes exactly would open up?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Malacca#/media/File:...

Re: Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'

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Post by CobaltFire »

palmetieri2000 wrote: post #82
aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird, that's about the same amount of time it's been since they steamrolled all of their guns in the street.

Sigh, I see this pop up so I should really just copy and paste one of my other answers, but. Australians supported handing in our guns after Port Arthur, Australians that want to engage in firearm use for sport, hunting, antique collection or pest control can all still do so within appropriate circumstances that the public overwhelmingly support. Low hanging fruit, moronic, pro-gun sentiment only shows how little you…

To back you up:

I visited Australia while on deployment and the process to go hunting, including the temporary firearms permit and training required, was rather more simple than I’d been led to believe. Getting permission through my CO was harder.

Re: Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'

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Post by Rodeoclash »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #93
justatdotin wrote: post #70

Edward Snowden's revelations included the detail that back in 2008, the then-DSD sought to /give away/ bulk data on australian citizens to foreign spy agencies. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator... In response to the revelations of this attack on Australian democracy, launched by an agency tasked to defend it, australia's attorney general focused on declaring Mr Snowden a traitor.

If this is how they treat their own citizens, I'm honestly scared what they think is okay to do to a foreigner.

Simply look up the indefinite detention of refugees here to get an idea.

Re: Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'

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Post by mrtweetyhack »

sen wrote: post #26

It wasn't super difficult, and was quite fun. I'm not a cryptography person and have zero knowledge of ciphers or anything like this, but a friend and I saw it and thought it'd be fun to give it a shot. We shared ideas but pretty much solved each puzzle ourselves in different ways (which was interesting to see in itself). The hidden 5th puzzle was both the hardest to get going on (due to no hints compared to the othe…

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Post by discordance »

TOMDM wrote: post #54
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've actually thought that some of the recent legislation, specifically the metadata retention and anti-encryption, has been the five-eyes using Australia's democratic populace of "bloody-minded sheep" as a testing ground and/or precedent for implementing the same privacy invasive legislation in the other countries that may be less 'compliant' without said precedent.

My thought has been even more pessimistic than that. Why even pass your own legislation when your intelligence agencies can just get Australia to extract that info for you. You don't need to actually backdoor the targets device, just the platform they use. Who cares about jurisdiction as long as your friends are willing to hand over data in the interest of international security.

No need to be pessimistic. This actually happens, as documented in the Prism leak.
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