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December 15, 2004
Australian police to use spyware and trojans
In Australian, the new Surveillance Devices Act will apparently allow law enforcement officers there to install spyware and trojans on the computers of suspected criminals. This apparently applies to both national and state police forces.
However, it has been suggested that competent computer users would readily be able to spot inexplicable use of their PC resources for such software. Also, Trendmicro suggests that current security software will usually circumvent crude attempts at computer surveillance by such methods.
I have to admit, though, I've often presumed that vendors such as Zone Labs - who supply the popular firewall software Zonealarm - already would have an agreement with US intelligence agencies, for allowing any such covert methods to automatically bypass the firewall.
What is interesting about the Australian case is the transparency of the legislation being dealt with.
Anyway, more on the story down under here: Australian police get go-ahead on spyware
Posted by at December 15, 2004 08:41 PM
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