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Big Brother is listening in Australia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon May 24 18:50:49 1999
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:09:12 (NZST)
The transcript of the Australian Channel 9's "Sunday" program "Big Brother is
listening" has been made available on their web site, acknowledging Australian
participation in Echelon and the UKUSA alliance. A general outline is
available at http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sun_cover.asp?id=817:
In this Sunday investigation, Australia's spy-chiefs acknowledge for the
first time this country's role in an international spying alliance that is
monitoring the overseas phone, fax and email messages of every Australian -
indeed, everyone on the planet.
[...]
In an unprecedented statement to the Sunday program, the director of
Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), Martin Brady, reveals what
spying the DSD allows on Australian citizens and companies. DSD also
officially acknowledges for the first time that it is a signatory of the
hitherto secret UK-USA alliance, that endorses cooperation with counterpart
intelligence organisations in the United Kingdom, the US, Canada and New
Zealand.
A full transcript is at http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sun_covtrans.asp?id=818.
Peter.
