stilgherrian Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Home Affairs savaged over poor data retention laws oversight” zdnet.com/article/home-a…
NewtonMark I’ve never been to Carnes Hill Big W, but if you bought something on lay-by and gave them my phone number by mistak..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1C
@dobes @TimeGhostTV Yes, a short time ago. Very good lizard king work, I thought.
@NickyWill100 Yeah I think I’m doing OK here.
Watching the first episode of “Celebrity Mastermind Australia from the other day: Nazeem Hussain, Alex Lee, Adam Sp..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…50
oberonsghost This is total anarchy. twitter.com/fesshole/statu…
asmamk This is huge.
I don’t think there’s ever been a ban on Hajj travel like this. twitter.com/cnni/status/12…
@RhombusHatesYou @SnarkyPlatypus The river crabs, I assume.
johnb78 It’s lucky that there aren’t any other diseases that people in Chinatown might be worrying about at the moment twitter.com/SEastSydHealth…
@PollHereford @kels_316 @NewtonMark Also, that’s some high-grade bullshit all round.
@PollHereford @kels_316 @NewtonMark They do this shit every 90 days before their quarterly earnings report and the suckers fall for it.
@dobes @rohan_p @jeamland It’s Jim Bakker. 6:10 PM, Feb 28th, 2020 via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to dobes
@SnarkyPlatypus @DamianM Not such a bad idea.
The other day I got this excellent grass-mud horse for @SnarkyPlatypus and you should ask him what its name is. (Th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ea
@Zytheran @SnarkyPlatypus Seem fair.
jonkudelka Trying to imagine the situation if it turns out coronavirus is spread by coal.
@GTRoberts I’m a big fan. And a Patreon supporter.
SnarkyPlatypus The coronavirus was deliberately created to rob the Australian government of its dodgily created budget surplus.
@GTRoberts Well, look at all the series they do! youtube.com/channel/UCLfMm…
@SuperCroup @paulkidd @speechleyish Jesus Christ.
euronews They were in every London phone box in the 80s and 90s, and now adverts for sex worker services have a museum of th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…HS
“How to watch the 2020 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade” on SBS. They’re dropping the geoblock. sbs.com.au/topics/pride/m…
@oberonsghost @paulkidd @speechleyish Beautiful. I think @dobes will appreciate including this in the rolling conspiracy.
@zdnetaustralia Fri plan, remainder: Pharmacy; shopping for dinner, which will be whatever inspires me; cook same f..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rU
@speechleyish @paulkidd 100% agreed. And I say that despite Certain Friends having one of the stupid things.
@ki_sekiya Yeah, it had a go but it didn’t get a go.
@paulkidd @speechleyish What a horrifying thought.
@SnarkyPlatypus I don’t think anyone would believe it.
TimWattsMP The full text of my @LowyInstitute speech last night on the challenge to democracy from Techno-Authoritarian states..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…f6
ASDGovAu ASD Director-General Ms Rachel Noble PSM announces the appointment of Ms Abigail Bradshaw CSC as Head of the Austra..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…UP
@Davelennonabc @JonathanPieNews Shoosh. I’m going to see him tomorrow night. Don’t upset him.
RECOMMENDED AGAIN: The episode of “Between 2 Wars” on the Spanish Flu epidemic etc from @TimeGhostTV. “Disease, War..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gB
God I love SMS marketing. pic.twitter.com/cKmnMbqNSm
chrislhayes Japan just closed schools for a month. If you’re a parent with school-aged children: think for a second about how m..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mw
Mr Speers has not threaded his tweets. twitter.com/David_Speers/s…
Oh I’d missed this! twitter.com/David_Speers/s…
Attn: @dobes. twitter.com/roweafr/status…
AntonyGreenABC @Stooartbaby @EdWellham @Peter_Fitz @MikeCarlton01 If the public elect a bad government then that’s a choice the pu..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1C
And happy 20th birthday to @crikey_news. May you see many more also. (Also cheers for lifting the paywall for the entire site this week.)
Happy sixth birthday to @SatPaper. May you see many more.
TheShovel PM Commits To Zero Climate Policy By 2050 theshovel.com.au/2020/02/28/pm-… pic.twitter.com/yuu6sO3ktB
@dobes @paulwallbank @R_Chirgwin @oberonsghost I love tentacles. Which am I? #thethirdcategory
BetootaAdvocate Local Woman Who Spent Weekend Sniffing Coke Off Nightclub Toilet Cistern Not Too Keen On Chinatown:..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Q6
@jodiem @zdnetaustralia I just double-checked. All conventions for quoting conversations have been followed. But I..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…AS
@jodiem @zdnetaustralia Yes.
@jodiem @zdnetaustralia Well, not in that piece.
@jodiem @zdnetaustralia It’s not up to me to judge.
@garystark @zdnetaustralia Oh I’ll certainly have a drink later.
Finally! Thank the gods for that! twitter.com/ladygaga/statu…
@moylecroft @dobes A few more case studies were in evidence today.
DavidLarter Navy accuses a PLAN destroyer of lasing a P-8A operating 400 miles off Guam. pic.twitter.com/LLw0S9OGXJ
@zdnetaustralia Reviewing the plan. I didn’t need to go to the library after all, so now I’m wondering what to cook..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mT
@davispg @zdnetaustralia I know we shouldn’t watch the sausages being made, but the sausages have been getting worse and worse.
@dobes All so true.
BNODesk BREAKING: Iran’s former ambassador to the Vatican, Hadi Khosroshahi, has died of coronavirus - IRNA
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Home Affairs savaged over poor data retention laws oversight” zdnet.com/article/home-a…
“Huawei to spend €200 million on new 5G plant in France” by @dobes zdnet.com/article/huawei…
@jodiem My pleasure. I think.
NewtonMark How does someone rise to the level of a Departmental Secretary without understanding that notebooks are official re..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Wj
There ends today’s PJCIS hearing. There were thrills. There were spills. We laughed a little. We cried a little.
@rgibli @zdnetaustralia It does have a certain grandeur to it, yes.
joshgnosis Notebooks 👏are 👏still 👏subject 👏to 👏FOI 👏and 👏archive👏laws. twitter.com/politicsabc/st…
@R_Chirgwin @NewtonMark Aren’t they gems!
@NewtonMark Done, you sook!
NewtonMark If you think that’s impressive, wait’ll you get a load of what they pull out of the carpet python. twitter.com/CBSNews/status…
@NewtonMark That’s terrible, Mark.
And then there’s this observation. The relevant story is “Australian Police Have Run Hundreds Of Searches On Clearv..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ew
So @joshgnosis has a story up from earlier evidence. Mine is in the pipeline. twitter.com/joshgnosis/sta…
Story filed for @zdnetaustralia. It contains a cavalier disregard.
Dreyfus asks AFP whether they use Clearview AI. Commissioner Reece Kershaw says he needs to take that on notice. Le..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Wb
Hastie has the phrase of the day: “We don’t want we don’t want unaccountable piranhas feeding off [the data].” #unaccountablepiranhas
PJCIS is asking all the cops about this “social license” theme. The cops agree that these other organisations don’t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5A
Ah, it’s the Australian Federal Police (AFP) up now.
So that’s the cops done, and now we’ve got a 10-minute break. But who’s left? That’s everyone on the program, isn’t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…KI
All of the law enforcement types are on at once. Dreyfus is drilling down in the data retention statistics. pic.twitter.com/frvEpvz1sQ
Oops, my stream didn’t restart. ACIC is up now but I’ve missed the first bit. pic.twitter.com/FBBtuRiA9s
What a magnificent transcription error. God bless AI! pic.twitter.com/UBrys6X7XJ
@justin_lister @MikePBurgess Um, no, he’s finished.
@mwyres Look you say that, but Hastie runs PJCIS quite well I think.
@edbott As we say in Australia, “Thank fuck for that!”
Lunch break. PJCIS might be back early at 1215 AEDT, i.e. they’re running ahead of schedule.
Who’s the bloke on the left, and why does he look so unhappy? pic.twitter.com/K14pV3zXtB
Dreyfus is quoting a Jan 2015 Burgess comment (when he was Telstra CISO) talking about retained data as a honeypot..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dW
Burgess says that ASIO has recently stood up a compliance section to provide better oversight. (ASIO didn’t have a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…95
Vickery says that if ASIO gets more data than it asks for, they sometimes send it back, because they don’t want to..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…33
MsLods @stilgherrian See ACMA Communications Report. (The latest one was released yesterday)
Table 3.2: Disclosures of cus..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…eq
Dreyfus notes that A-G’s guidelines ore-date metadata retention and ISIS is concerned. Burgess says work is well under way in updating them.
“It’s not that we’re incompetent,” it’s just that it takes a long time to unpick a deep penetration in an espionage case.
Burgess confirms that ASIO is not legally required to delete data that’s no longer in use, that they can keep data..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…r9
Questions from Byrne and others about the quantity of this metadata held offshore. Numbers appear to be not known…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rg
Wilson: Do you share the concern that ASIO’s “social license” to access metadata is undermined by so many other age..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…vG
Dreyfus (I think): “How do you feel about the RSPCA getting the same access as ASIO?” Burgess as a private citizen..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uH
Keneally is asking about the privacy balance implications if ASIO gets more years of retention versus so many other..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…zE
Burgess says that if they receive web browsing history with a metadata request they delete it, tell the telco to pr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yJ
@melissamadsen @Aust_Parliament No idea, sorry.
@joshgnosis I like it.
Fawcett is concerned that it’s “pot luck” whether a telco has more than two years available are not. Vickery says i..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…bu
Fawcett is asking about the reduction to two years again. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
After Burgess’ opening, Hastie asks a dixer about IGIS oversight. Hastie says he did so because the ASIO submission..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…63
@Pardigm_Egress parlview.aph.gov.au/browse.php All here. Use the extended controls in the player to choose and download clips.
We’re back. ASIO up. Director-General Mike Burgess starts by referring to his recent threat report…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Rb
Dreyfus wraps by saying he’s been critical of submissions from Home Affair, but these three were full and helpful a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6m
Dreyfus is asking Warnes how it was possible to get a user’s web browsing history via data retention. Warnes says i..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ee
Warnes says there are negotiations in progress with the US. Subscriber data can be dealt with separately.
Keneally is not asking about the CLOUD Act and the need for “independent” authorisation.
Dreyfus is now hitting Hansford on the press freedom inquiry, accusing him of sitting on a document. What did it ta..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cx
@Andrew_Zammit Thanks, not sure, I’ll have to re-listen.
Hansford is not looking a happy man right now.
Meanwhile… twitter.com/TheKouk/status…
Dreyfus, being a QC, is conducting a forensic criss-examination, and Home Affairs is not coming out of this very well at all.
Dreyfus: Are there national guidelines for what constituted “reasonably necessary” for accessing metadata?
Hansford: No.
@jasminchill The one before that, I think. I’ll have a draft transcript by 11am thanks to AI.
Dreyfus is asking whether Home Affairs has datas that isn’t just extrapolated from a small number of anecdotes from..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…HQ
@dobes This is in contrast to PJCIS.
Dreyfus, re metadata request figures: “What conduct is captured by the category ‘miscellaneous’?”
Hansford: “I’d ha..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Dq
I missed what Dreyfus just asked, but the answer again from Hansford was that Home Affairs doesn’t know, can get “a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…G2
Ah, that’s where Abetz is today. The sports rorts committee. twitter.com/TomMcIlroy/sta…
Hansford has said they’ll provide some examples where data older than 24 months would be “useful”. I can’t help but..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dT
BBCWorld China prepares 100,000 ducks to battle Pakistan’s locust swarms
A single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day bbc.in/3863qYY
Hansford is quoting the head of ACIC from a speech that if a warrant requirement was placed across data retention t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Y0
This is always their position. twitter.com/joshgnosis/sta…
Fawcett asks if telcos that use to retain data for more than two years have cut that back to the mandatory two year..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…SW
Fawcett is asking for case examples for the 2-year data retention period. Home Affairs is arguing that any reductio..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gs
Keneally now asking repeatedly for a timeframe for policy recommendations. Hansford is waffling but the paragraph e..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Mb
Exactly this, I think. If only someone had noticed that this split responsibility would be problematic. twitter.com/joshgnosis/sta…
Committee (Senator whose face I don’t recognise) is asking whether there’s a specific project on machine-to-machine..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…XN
@jasminchill It’ll be hard to beat what just happened, but now that there’s some blood in the water the committee c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QU
Hansford says former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson is reviewing the national security intelligence legal framework, a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…OG
Question up now about data connected with IoT etc, and whether Home Affairs is thinking about this. Who was that Se..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…MX
Is Eric Abetz in this room? I haven’t herd his voice yet, and he’d normally run interference.
Kathage (Comms) is bringing things back to how this process could be fixed, with Andrew Hastie as chair working out..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2w
Dreyfus is back on. I feel like saying Dreyfus and Byrne is a good cop bad cop performance. Dreyfus in calm even to..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…G5
@rohan_p I’m surprised Hastie didn’t try to intervene as chair, but then his chairmanship of PJCIS has been quite balanced,
Byrne to Hansford: “You’ve not answered the question … You take it on notice … I’m done with you … I’m done. Don’t talk.” Wow.
@rohan_p I believe the term is “ripping them a new one”.
Byrne is raising his voice now. He is quite angry. “I don’t need a lecture about schools pursuing principals…” I..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gX
This is why Byrne’s head is hurting too. twitter.com/joshgnosis/sta…
Byrne says today’s attempt to deflect this as a jurisdictional issue is a “cavalier disregard” for the process. Han..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…p1
Anthony Byrne, former chair of PJCIS, is going back to the history of this. On thing he’s “struggling with” today i..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…iJ
Here’s s.280, by the way. www7.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdo…
Dreyfus question on notice: Can anyone tell me how many authorisations have been made under s,280 and some other (s..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cu
Dreyfus is citing a bunch of Communications Alliance work.
McNeil admit there’s no centralised reporting of how state agencies are using the metadata legislation. Dreyfus mad..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…eH
Mark Dreyfus is hitting it now. PJCIS was told there’d be a very limited set of agencies able to access metadata, a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QZ
Keneally: “But this is a review. That’s our job.”
Fawcett wants example of these serious offences. Do we need to get this up at COAG? Fawcett: “We shouldn’t accept t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…UR
Keneally is actually making the point that a lot more data is available now so maybe the balance with privacy isn’t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gM
David Fawcett is asking who RSPCAS or teachers institute can get access. If it’s a serious case, such as a teacher..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QY
Tim Wilson asked about the wide range of assistance available under s313 of the Telco Act. McNeil is saying these a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1r
It’s mostly a generic statement. These laws protect Australians. Telco data is important. Limiting its use — time,.twitter.com/i/web/status/1…abv
Hansford paraphrased: On the 2-year retention period, while the majority of access is to data 0 to 3 months okld (c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…iw
It begins, with the departmental representatives. pic.twitter.com/sao0k4dPeW
@arizclint It’s a living. Just.
Enjoying* the Parliament on-hold music.
MatthewBevan So, not only did the @politico reporter sent to cover the VP’s Coronavirus Taskforce Briefing mistake a civet cat f..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nq
@dobes @Dave_Hooton Goddammit lol.
johnthelutheran Any prosthetic leg comes near MY kids, I swear I’ll do time. 😡 twitter.com/youwouldknow/s…
AlKapDC Under Watkins’ management, multiple alleged mass shooters posted manifestos on 8chan, & the QAnon conspiracy theory..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Mt
AlKapDC A Filipino court issued an arrest warrant for Fredrick Brennan, the founder of 8chan, on behalf of 8kun (the revive..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rb
Starting in 30 mins at 0830 AEDT, the Parliamentary Joint Committee, Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) hearing in t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…PP
@Dave_Hooton @dobes And where does the steam come from? I have so many questions!
Exactly @SnarkyPlatypus @glengyron and probably @DavidFeng because he likes to eat too. twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/…
@dobes More discrimination against Africans!
Tr0llyTr0llFace Bitcoiners still trying hard to disrupt the 1950s. twitter.com/cryptocharles_…
@dobes Apparently you can turn them into an impromptu barista, somehow.
@dobes I forgot to say that many people call them Civets. But here we are.
World is fukt.
@dobes Anyway, here is a Civic Cat, which is basically an Asian Tree Quoll. pic.twitter.com/Ku25a2Z4zL
kasiababis “THERE IS NO CLUE AS TO WHAT THESE TWO WOMEN IN BED TOGETHER ARE DOING” pic.twitter.com/4iwFm06AYr
Well at least @SnarkyPlatypus will be pleased. twitter.com/newsthump/stat…
Oh FFS. twitter.com/dr_nic/status/…
doingitwrong buy snake oil stocks
twitter.com/RightWingWatch…
Fri plan, the outline: 0830 Monitor PJCIS data retention hearing and report on same for @zdnetaustralia..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7s
RAF_Luton Our Stealth Fighters are ready to operate 24/7 365 days of the year! a bit of #LondonSnow won’t stop us from defend..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QN
DrLindseyFitz “The Merits of Our Cocaine.” Advert from 1907. pic.twitter.com/Ceh1nTRd3M
Pleasant enough weather for Sydney today. pic.twitter.com/ZefMWKaU1M
Friday. It slides in more easily now, thanks to improved technology. Friday.