Parliamentary computers of the Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, and other ministers may have been hacked, according to Australian media reports. Details of the reported hack are more than a little vague. Sydney's Daily Telegraph reported that US intelligence tipped local authorities off over a suspected breach, which …

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Tuesday 29th March 2011 17:32 GMT Anonymous Coward

email cache circulating on Tor

> It's likely the US authorities came across the leak after spotting the email cache circulating on the Tor anonymizer network ..

Do you have a link to this cache and what ever you do don't mention Windows ... :)

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1. Tuesday 29th March 2011 23:05 GMT Baskitcaise
  
  what ever you do don't mention Windows ... :)
  
  I think you got away with it.
  
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2. Wednesday 30th March 2011 08:53 GMT K. Adams
  
  Re: email cache circulating on Tor
  
  I'm sure the ACMA will be along Real Soon Now to draft legislation targeting Tor and other privacy protection services...
  
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Tuesday 29th March 2011 20:10 GMT Anonymous Coward

Didn't the Oz govt get warned

by Anonymous - maybe its not the Chinese after all

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1. Wednesday 30th March 2011 08:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Won't be surprised if it is
  
  Given Anonymous' stand on censorship and how it turned out that the new information minister is for censorship, it's just inevitable.
  
  Please think of the children? What ever happened to parental guidance?
  
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Tuesday 29th March 2011 20:17 GMT Captain TickTock

Chuck another pwn on the barbie, love.

...mine's the Dryzabone.

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Wednesday 30th March 2011 08:57 GMT Mark Simon

IE again?

I have trained many people from various government departments, am commonly informed that they are still locked into IE, and all too often IE6, which says all you need to know about their knowledge of and attitude to IT security.

Why can I never find rancid milk when I need it?

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Wednesday 30th March 2011 09:07 GMT umacf24

Why Parliament?

BHP and RTZ wouldn't have to work very hard at security to be a lot tighter than a parliamentary network. Legislatures are like partnerships -- they have hundreds of "chief executives" -- and without a hierarchy, it's difficult to enforce much in the way of policy on builds or network activity.

So whoever did this probably just found an easy target.

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Wednesday 30th March 2011 09:18 GMT Graham Bartlett

Burning the Midnight Oil

How can we stand while our data's churning

How can we sleep while our login's burning

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Wednesday 30th March 2011 12:00 GMT Anonymous Coward

Pah, hacked my arse....

...it's the dirty little buggers surfing dodgy websites to err test, yes test the great Firewall of Oz. They clearly need to install "Codecs" to play the video, just to make sure it wasn't porn. Twice.

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Wednesday 30th March 2011 16:59 GMT The Morgan Doctrine

China: "The usual suspects"

No longer a whispered scenario, China is now the first guess in any hacking story. My advice to China is clean up your act, before a licensed and bonded cyber privateer cleans it up for you. Because they'll clean out a few bank accounts along the way.

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Monday 4th April 2011 12:28 GMT Anonymous Coward

Corporate masters own the politicians

"If you were after intelligence on mining operations it would make more sense to hack into the systems of mining firms than those of politicians."

If Australian politicians are as beholden to their corporate masters as U.S. politicians are (up to their ears in corruption, some of the U.S. ones are), the Australian politicians could be being paid off by the mining companies to pass laws favorable to mining.

So hackers might very well find tantalizing info about mining, by hacking into political systems.

On the other hand, maybe Australian politicians have a higher level of professionalism and maybe they can't be bought as easily as some American politicians can.

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