Protests Mount In New Zealand Against New Surveillance Laws

An anonymous reader writes "New revelations about Ministerial orders requiring backdoors into online services in New Zealand are fueling nationwide protests against new surveillance powers to be granted to the Government Communications Services Bureau. Speaking at one large protest meeting, Kim Dotcom described the 'Five Eyes' X-Keyscore surveillance system as 'Google for spies'. He told protesters he first noticed he was being spied on when his internet speed slowed by '20 to 30 milliseconds'. 'As a gamer, I noticed,' he said."

Re:I can tell from the pixels

[Anonymous Coward]

Bollocks... If there is no toilet paper you can just assume that the toilet cam is not being monitored.....

Re:20-30 ms is massive

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I don't know if he noticed it, or the system measured and displayed it(which is common enough for multiplayer matchmaking software to do, and requires no special skills); but if you live in New Zealand your ping to just about anything other than Middle Earth is going to suck.

See?

[Anonymous Coward]

The NSA screwed it up for everyone. Now no countries will be able to illegally spy on their citizens..