Posts by kartstar

Re: Australian Gov

> ...since they are going to be the ones allowing the upload from a infected person (prevention of false positives) then signing the download to your device)

My understanding was that this is not how it worked.This article explains it differently, although I don't believe it either.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-20/government-insists-coronavirus-tracing-app-wont-track-locations/12163756

From what I've read my understanding is that upon installing the app, your phone sends to the Australian Government controlled servers 4 pieces of information (name, phone, postcode, age range). It also communicates what random ID it's using to the server on a regular basis. Your phone will also capture the random ID's of phones it is nearby (with the app installed) for more than 15 minutes stored locally. If an approved health department gets your OK you can trigger the upload those ID's your app has captured which can then be correlated to the data the health department already has, find out which people you were in contact with, and contact those people via their phone.

Given the horrible laws that have recently been passed in Australia regarding law enforcement access to peoples private data via anti-encryption legislation (sometimes without a warrant), there would be nothing stopping these agencies from seizing the data on your phone, or compelling the health department to grant access to that data in secret. Even if a law is passed to restrict the access to this data, without modifying those existing laws it will be down to a legal fight to determine if they were right in doing this, after they have already accessed the data. Similar to the metadata laws, where the laws specified only 22 departments, but in reality more than 80 departments are accessing the data due to existing laws prior to those metadata ones.

The better solution for anyone that cares about the privacy of citizens, is simply not to install the app until the government enshrines personal privacy in existing laws.

Re: You can read my SMSs but you can take my WhatsApps from my cold dead hands

It depends on how much you value your personal data and privacy, as to which you believe is costing you more.

Apparently the Labor party amendments will exclude state-based anti-corruption bodies from being able to access these powers (and probably the new federal one that is threatening to be setup will be excluded too). Typical. If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. Clearly they have plenty to hide.

I'm not across exactly how a law like this goes through parliament. Will it need to go back through the house again? Or will it go straight to the senate? I was under the impression it's been voted through the house once. Hopefully it needs to go through the house again and my new local MP (Kerryn Phelps) votes to block it.

Seems that some poor shmuck missed the fact that these "devices" you speak of still had an internet connection, and he was able to (arguably?) influence the US election from them.

Re: The Interesting Thing...

The linking is done through networking, in much the same way that you could set up two VM's on their own isolated network within a hypervisor. It just says "these containers need to talk to each other over the network".

For example, you may have a container running MySQL which wants to listen on port 3306. By default, no traffic can get to this port. If you used the -p switch, any traffic directed at the host on the port you choose could be directed at this 3306 port. But if you didn't want the MySQL to be visible to the world, and only wanted it to be visible to another container (such as the one your application is in) you could link the two containers together using the --link switch.

Re: OK Tanya...

I'm a local member in her electorate... she can expect a letter and some local campaigning before the next election from me.