Quite frankly, I'm disappointed that companies in Australia can wave the police wand whenever there's an IT security issue. I want Aussie police to step up their game and charge the companies with making false police reports. Especially with demands to seize equipment of individuals as a form of extortion with malicious intent to silence them.
http://risky.biz/fss_idiots
http://risky.biz/minter
There's also a case where Police can arrest you and unarrest you at will (At Queensland at least). In the process, taking all your equipment (his iPad): http://www.news.com.au/technology/facebook-story-arrest-disp...
The young journalist decided to go quiet so as to not upset police(?): http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/hn74v/what_happen...
Even [NSW] politicians think accessing a private URL can be 'hacking': http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/minister-a--monkey-could-have-hack...
Quite frankly, I'm disappointed that companies in Australia can wave the police wand whenever there's an IT security issue. I want Aussie police to step up their game and charge the companies with making false police reports. Especially with demands to seize equipment of individuals as a form of extortion with malicious intent to silence them.