back to article Nope. That's not our FAKE BOMB say Oz spooks and cops

For at least the third time in as many years, someone carrying real or fake explosives in a security training exercise has lost track of their cargo. Yesterday, that resulted in a full-scale security lockdown at Sydney's Circular Quay, the city's ground zero for tourism thanks to views of the city's iconic Harbour Bridge and …

  1. Woza
    Joke

    This is why

    we need warrantless metadata access, obviously!

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  2. MrDamage Silver badge

    The reason terrorists arent attacking Australia

    Is that they're too busy laughing at our security services who are doing their job for them.

    1. Diogenes

      Re: The reason terrorists arent attacking Australia

      I don't know, there are at least 2 corpses who would disagree with you.

  3. StephenH
    Big Brother

    Special security operation - you do you know you're going to gaol for publishing this story?

  4. Mark 85

    Not intentional then?

    They weren't testing the government's response? Oh... wait, the response isn't complete yet... metadata, more surveillance, etc.required.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Some Australian security services bombs actually kill people

    Seriously:-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Hilton_Hotel_bombing

  6. aberglas

    Shut down the entire Circular Quay!

    One cannot be a bit suspicious of an over reaction. Ok, So a suspicious package is found. Keep people away from it. But it would have to be very powerful indeed to destroy all of Circular Quay.

  7. J Bourne
    Coat

    Isn't the point of an exercise of this nature to test the response of the various services? Not sure how you're going to achieve that if you tell them it's a fake......

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