Does anyone feel the need to meet with DIA (and whoever else in the govt) who know the technicalities of this to discuss the issue?
I think a meeting would be a good idea.. perhaps a proper confrence on this issue in NZ would be a good plan... if we can get enough interest we could perhaps organise a convention room somewhere and have a proper NZ internet security and the Law confrence with some of the important people in this feild in NZ attending.
I also don't believe in scanning emails for particular text strings to perhaps highlight possible problems (and I know this isn't effective especially with people being able to use pgp etc)
What if someone is using encrypted or securirty like ssh/ssl/pgp/ and whatever other encryption there is.
This issue is one I think needs to be looked at... I persoanlly use PGP for many e-mails with vendors overseas when transmitting commecially sensative information. Lets say the NZ police decide to look at all my e-mials. Do they have the right to say "Give us your passphrase.. here's a warrant" and if I say. "No bugger off" do I run the risk of imprisonment for "Opposeing police business"
Where do you stand on port scanning? For example some say there's nothing wrong with portscanning - it is what they do with the information after they scan. Others say if they port scan they must be guilty or told off.
And what about ISP's scanning their customers? It could be said to be a security issue. I used my parents ISP in the US and got portscanned from their NS server 2 times in one hour.. thinking they might have been hacked I called them and apparently they do it as a "service to their customers" They scan for open BO, netbus and other hacker things such as default redhat installs. Is this a breech of privacy?
Meeting - Yes please
Agreed perhaps a security and the law conferance.. I'ld be happy to help organise this.
So please raise hands if you want it.
Raise. Chris Rigby Senior Systems Engineer IHUG - Into the Internet --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog