[171767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Zealand Spy Agency To Vet Network Builds, Provider Staff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue May 13 12:34:37 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <22B7B879-F14D-464E-B937-A5B95227FC97@delong.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:34:26 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of this. But at least they did it in =
the open, unlike the NSA (where you live).
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TTFN,
patrick
On May 13, 2014, at 12:12 , Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> Yep=85 If I had infrastructure in NZ, that would be enough to cause me =
to remove it.
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> Owen
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> On May 13, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> =
wrote:
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>> I realize that New Zealand is *not* in North America (hence NANOG),
>> but I figure that some global providers might be interested here.
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>> This sounds rather... dire (probably not the right word).
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>> "The new Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) =
Act
>> of 2013 is in effect in New Zealand and brings in several drastic
>> changes for ISPs, telcos and service providers. One of the country's
>> spy agencies, the GCSB, gets to decide on network equipment
>> procurement and design decisions (PDF), plus operators have to
>> register with the police and obtain security clearance for some =
staff.
>> Somewhat illogically, the NZ government pushed through the law
>> combining mandated communications interception capabilities for law
>> enforcement, with undefined network security requirements as decided
>> by the GCSB. All network operators are subject to the new law,
>> including local providers as well as the likes of Facebook, Google,
>> Microsoft, who have opposed it, saying the new statutes clash with
>> overseas privacy legislation."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/05/13/005259/new-zealand-spy-agency-to-ve=
t-network-builds-provider-staff
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>> FYI,
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>> - - ferg
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>> Paul Ferguson
>> VP Threat Intelligence, IID
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