When you say "the scheme"
I read: "the scam".
Maybe I'm too cynical.
Anyone keeping a book on how long until:
A) it goes tits-up or
B) it leaks like an LNP Cabinet Minister
Australian government hiring guardians of retained metadata
The metadata retention scheme dreamed up by Australia's federal government may be stalled and in a shambles, but the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security isn't waiting for things to go wrong: it's recruiting specialists to watch over the scheme. Turned up by Crikey (which Tweeted it as a search for “contractors”, …
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Friday 6th November 2015 14:25 GMT Steven Roper
"...but it's nice to think that someone's on the ball."
No it's not. What we need is for these incompetent buffoons to run around like chooks with their heads cut off, passing the buck from department to department, until the entire damnable metadata retention scheme blows out costs and problems like Krakatoa and comes down around their bloody ears!
These days basic civil liberties ride on ensuring the politicians are so busy tying each other up in knots that nothing ever gets done and the people get left alone. That's exactly why in every election I always vote for opposing parties in the Upper and Lower Houses (Liberal Senate, Labor Parliament or vice versa) - precisely so that any new bills proposed by the Lower House are more likely to get blocked by a hostile Senate, thus leaving things as they are and preserving what few fucking freedoms we have left!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
