Australian Cybercrime Bill

skware writes: "The first public hearing for The Cybercrime Bill (2001) was held in Sydney on Thursday. The hansard report of the meeting is online in pdf format at http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s506 9.pdf. There was quite a good showing from the law enforcement and drafting agencies and Departments. Submissions were made by the Attorney general's Department (AGD), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and the Australian Computer Society (ACS)."

"The Australian branch (chapter?) of the 2600 organization has a submission at http://www.2600.org.au/Cybercrime-Submission.pdf. The ACS have a brief press release at http://www.acs.org.au/news/190701.htm. There are some pretty funny quotes from the senators in the hansard report. CHAIR-I was thinking, Mr Boxall, that perhaps I should take my colleagues on a popular education cultural excursion to see Swordfish as a crash course in worms and associated matters. Senator McKiernan would enjoy it enormously."

Cybercrime Bills in the US

[Starquake]

How long before we see this kind of headline with United States in place of Australia? Australia was ahead of the US in banning guns, but we seem to be rapidly catching up to them on that issue. Now it looks like they are ahead of us in making computer-related activities a crime. Is Australia a harbinger of the future US?

some of the funnier / most interesting quotes

[skware]

for those that can't be bothered reading the pdf, ie. most of /. some of the funnier and most interesting quotes that sum up the responses of the senators can be found at http://student.canberra.edu.au/~u102787 [canberra.edu.au] My favourite is the fact that they seem to think that a trillion is 3000 million.