Windows Server 2012 Resource Centre
[ad] Windows Server 2012 redefines the server category, delivering hundreds of new features and enhancements spanning virtualization, networking, storage, user experience, cloud computing, automation, and more. Click here to visit our Windows Server 2012 Resource Centre with case studies, white papers and articles about Windows Server 2012.
Nokia Lumia Smartphones: Innovation's calling
[ad] Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone comes with unique camera technology, wireless charging and turn-by-turn navigation. Make every image picture perfect. See your city differently. Charge without wires. Click here to learn more.
Save up to $199 on Dell XPS 12 Ultrabooks: Power for your projects and passions.
[ad] This convertible Ultrabook™ delivers the speed and performance you expect from the XPS family in a sleek new design that's ready for work and play. Don't get two pieces of technology when one will do it all. The Dell XPS 12 is a tablet and Ultrabook combined to produce the perfect laptop.
Great articles on other sites
- Proof the internet filter lives on by other means
- Budget 2013: Heavy on 'showcasing', light on strategy
- CGU to replace core insurance system
- Google Australia calls for mandatory comp sci until year 10
- Spectrum fail could help Libs fight Labor's regional NBN
- Offended By Fraudband? Maybe You Shouldn’t Have Said It First
- Brisbane Grammar School prepares for Lync
- Coalition wants ex-Telstra players for NBN board
- That NBN Speed Comparison Site Now Looks More Realistic
- GovHack to encourage agencies on open data
Managing virtualised environments: Free whitepaper
[ad] Virtualisation is one of the single most important technologies for efficiently operating servers. This free whitepaper presents information about current trends in virtualisation adoption, risks associated with single vendor virtualisation, and the benefits of open source virtualisation. Click here to download the whitepaper.
One More Thing - iOS App Maker Conference - 24th May
[ad] If you make iOS apps, come listen to the best in the industry share their tip & tricks for App Store success. Melbourne, 24th May, 2013 - use the coupon code "delimiter" for 5% off.
Blog, Internet, Security - Written by Renai LeMay on Friday, September 21, 2012 11:40 - 51 Comments
Critics flood Roxon with copies of Orwell’s ‘1984’
blog We bet Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon isn’t thrilled at the latest method which Australians concerned about the Government’s proposed data retention and Internet surveillance regime have adopted to express their dissent. Half a dozen of Roxon’s fiercest critics have started mailing the Labor MP copies of George Orwell’s iconic book 1984. Blogger Daniel Kinsman writes:
“Given the recent push for increased surveillance, ISP data retention, and the erosion of any “right to remain silent”, I wonder if Nicola Roxon has read 1984. Let’s make sure she has, or at least that she re-reads it, given the circumstances. I’m going to buy her a copy and send it to her address at parliament house:
You can do the same. Find a copy in your local book store, or order online at fishpond ($9.51 including shipping), book depository ($9.43 including shipping), or amazon. Be sure to mark it as a gift and include a note, but be civil. We are trying to convince her that our privacy and freedoms are important, and that new powers will violate them in an attempt to catch criminals that has dubious efficacy at best. Twenty copies of 1984 landing on her desk should get our message across.”
Kinsman told Delimiter this morning that half a dozen copies were already on their way to the Attorney-General. One wonders whether Roxon will find the tome to be interesting late night reading material ;) Perhaps she could forward the excess copies to the Australian Federal Police and ASIO?
Image credit: Cropped version of one of the original covers of 1984
| Tweet |  |
 |
51 Comments
Leave a Comment
-
- Topic
- Voices
- Freshness
-
-
Malcolm Turnbull, Time Traveller
Started by:
quink in: Everything else
- 2
- 2 days, 17 hours ago
-
Article on 'Ultraviolet'
Started by:
ray73864 in: Everything else
- 2
- 5 days, 13 hours ago
-
Surface sells out … of its tiny amount of stock?
Started by:
Renai LeMay in: Gadgets
- 4
- 6 days, 14 hours ago
-
Coalition fraudband plan summary…
Started by:
Hubert Cumberdale in: National Broadband Network
- 4
- 1 week, 5 days ago
-
NBN Is A Question Of Reliability
Started by:
JamesH1 in: National Broadband Network
- 1
- 1 week, 5 days ago
-
Renai asked:
Started by:
Tinman_au in: National Broadband Network
- 1
- 1 week, 5 days ago
-
What Happened to Whirlpool posts
Started by:
MikeK101 in: Everything else
- 2
- 3 weeks, 4 days ago
-
Conroy/Turnbull NBN Debate Next Week
Started by:
zephram in: National Broadband Network
- 1
- 3 weeks, 5 days ago
-
Blocked from posting? Let me know
Started by:
- 2
- 3 weeks, 6 days ago
-
Falsehoods of the day
Started by:
Karl in: National Broadband Network
- 4
-
1 month, 1 week ago
Anonymous
-
Is IBM selling its Network Services Division to Telstra?
Started by:
- 1
- 1 month, 2 weeks ago
-
10 Terabit NBN plan? Yes please :)
Started by:
daniel996 in: National Broadband Network
- 2
- 1 month, 2 weeks ago
-
Renai (or anyone else?): List of working tags?
Started by:
- 3
- 1 month, 4 weeks ago
-
Receiving spam from "OEMSoftware Newsletter"?
Started by:
- 4
- 1 month, 4 weeks ago
-
A brief update on banned users
Started by:
- 6
- 2 months ago
-
Malcolm Turnbull, Time Traveller
Get our 'Best of the Week' newsletter on Fridays
Just the most important stories, one email a week.
Get our daily newsletter
Get all our new articles every weekday morning.
| Follow @delimiterau |  |
 |
 |
Most Popular Content
- Pro-NBN fanbois have fallen into bad habits
- Politifact disputes Labor's $5k NBN fibre claim">"Mostly false":
Politifact disputes Labor's $5k NBN fibre claim
- The perfect demonstration of
an NBN false dichotomy
- Foxtel locks up Game of Thrones:
No more fast-tracked iTunes downloads
- Pushed for Coalition contingency plan, NBN Co reveals rollout costs
- US ambassador begs Australians:
Stop pirating Game of Thrones
- Interpol filter scope creep:
ASIC ordering unilateral website blocks
- Australia’s universities hacked on a regular basis
- Optus launches TD-LTE 4G trial in Canberra
- Retail POS startup Kounta kicks off investment
- Is FTTN vectoring just a pipe dream?
- Turnbull rejects Labor’s NBN subsidy claims
- Soul Sacrifice: Review
- 32 years later, CGU replaces insurance IT platform
- Oh geez i cant remember...all im my head. I looked into it for a NBN contractor ...
- It is a double whammy
1. Due to competition there are less people on the netw...
- Coalition are breaking this model allowing for lower prices where competition is...
- Actually Malcolm has stated that where there is competition they will likely be ...
- @Renai, You wrote this article about the impact rain was having on your ADSL2+ S...
- "Since when do you expect politicians to adequately debate complex issues?"
I...
Forum login
Enterprise IT news & views
-
Australia’s universities hacked on a regular basis
Not all of the hype around IT security can be believed at the moment — several times when your writer has investigated so-called ‘hacking’ attacks in recent months, we’ve found only low-level script-kiddie-type of behaviour at the bottom of the situation. However, there definitely are some serious break-ins around, as chronicled in this somewhat disturbing article published in late April by citizen journalism site The Citizen.
-
32 years later, CGU replaces insurance IT platform
Think core banking platforms last a long time? Check out the gray hairs and wrinkles on the positively ancient insurance IT system which CGU is still running. This thing is so old it should be code-named ‘Methuselah’.
-
Guzman y Gomez likes the taste of NetSuite
Fast-growing Mexican restaurant fast food chain Guzman y Gomez revealed this week that it has upgraded its previous MYOB-based accounting system to a comprehensive business platform from software as a service vendor NetSuite, to help support the chain’s ongoing expansion plans.
-
Microsoft finally launches Surface Pro in Australia
Almost 12 months after it first announced the device, Microsoft has finally confirmed that it will launch its Surface Pro family of Windows 8-based tablets in Australia later this month.
-
Qantas still finalising Outlook shift
The nation’s largest airline Qantas has revealed that it’s still in the process of migrating its corporate email platform off IBM’s Lotus Notes/Domino platform and onto Microsoft’s Outlook/Exchange system, with the rollout now into its fourth year.
-
IT in the budget? Move along, not much to see
Curious about what technology-related iniatives came out last night’s Federal Budget? So were we, given that the release of the budget had been being hyped for weeks (months?) by much of the mainstream media as part of its continual fixation on the fraught battle between the various sides of politics. However, unlike previous years, this yaer there wasn’t much in the 2013 Federal Budget to interest technologists.
Blog, Enterprise IT, Security - May 20, 2013 13:23 - 0 Comments
Australia’s universities hacked on a regular basis
More In Enterprise IT
- 32 years later, CGU replaces insurance IT platform
- Guzman y Gomez likes the taste of NetSuite
- Microsoft finally launches Surface Pro in Australia
- Qantas still finalising Outlook shift
- IT in the budget? Move along, not much to see
Blog, Telecommunications - May 20, 2013 13:08 - 0 Comments
Optus launches TD-LTE 4G trial in Canberra
More In Telecommunications
- Is FTTN vectoring just a pipe dream?
- Turnbull rejects Labor’s NBN subsidy claims
- ASIC blocked “numerous” sites over 9 months
- Telstra suffers another data breach
- FOI requests target Section 313 notices
Blog, Gadgets - May 13, 2013 15:52 - 0 Comments
Sony Xperia Z tablet hits Australia
More In Gadgets
- HP Slate 7 to land in Australia shortly
- Why touchscreens matter for laptops
(Or, review of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch)
- Amazon Appstore challenging Google Play as Australian launch looms
- Consoles to suffer as tablets triple mobile games downloads by 2017
- Despite Aussie windfall, does Apple profit slide suggest hard times ahead?
but isn’t this just going to give her more ideas?
I hadn’t considered that possibility. I think it depends on how well she is able to see through satire ;)
Wouldn’t she also consider it “trolling”? ;)
No this is literature bullying
lol, as opposed to “social media” bullying
If they suggest a tiered setup, the next book would be Animal Farm…
Now THAT would start to be literature bullying :)
I would suggest that it would be entirely appropriate to spam both Labor and the Coalition with copies of Animal Farm :)
@Renai
Let us never forget that some animals are more equal than others …
Despite its title, the novel (its thesis becoming less novel, day-by-day, in Australia) has no intrinsic use-by date. Remember that paranoia is the one true instinct.
Scary thing is I suspect this is where the department are getting their ideas from.
Anyone seen the latest smart TVs? The ones that are motion controlled and have a camera for Skype conferencing and games etc?
Anyone note the desire to extend the definition of computer? Most likely to include smart phones, tablets, gaming consoles etc… and most likely smart TVs.
Anyone note they are asking for unamed 3rd parties to be targeted on without a warrant?
Anyone care to guess what *could* happen if a “person of interest” happened to visit your home regularly and you happen to have a smart tv with camera in the lounge room?
I don’t think the spook powers are like Orwell’s Big Brother, I think it *is* Big Brother.
Seriously, think about the consequences of unnamed 3rd parties to a warrant being able to be electronically surveilled in today’s connected society… what wouldn’t be possible?
* Devices with fingerprint scanners could be accessed.
* Televisions with embedded cameras could be accessed, some even in bedrooms.
* Smartphones with cameras could be accessed
* Tablets, etc
What about the photos you have stored on these devices?
‘Anyone note they are asking for unamed 3rd parties to be targeted on without a warrant?’
This is the single most concerning aspect of the packages in my eyes.
1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a totalitarian handbook!
I hate to be pedantic, but the book called is “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, not “1984″.
*is called* :)
bah, it’s Friday, what do you want, a sub-editor???? ;)
Whats the pay like? And hour?
Poor, 24×7
You cant just say 24×7, I wanted a specific hour!!! I’ll take 11am Tuesday please.
Being (only slightly more) serious, I know I wont get a number, but I HAVE been curious to how much all the plusone.google.com hits generate for this site :) I see anywhere from 1 to 4 when I load up a story.
Back button keeps running into them here at work, probably generating its fair share of extra bling along the way.
We don’t get a stack of traffic from Google Plus — perhaps a few hundred page impressions a day. We get a lot more traffic from places such as Twitter, Google Search, Whirlpool, Reddit, email newsletter and so on.
I wonder if I can find a copy of Nineteen Eighty Four at my second hand book store?
It seems only right to send her a second hand book to go with her second hand ideas.
I tried two local second hand shops this morning; no luck.
But I will bestow a gift of the book on Nicola, as suggested.
Just in case Roxon made the transition, should some of us email her the ebook instead?
Nah, just email her a link to the Project Gutenberg download page…
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
I think a physical copy of the book would have a great deal more impact :) I think, courtesy of the ‘ccRoxon’ hashtag, that Roxon is already getting a great deal of email on this issue ;)
Only if you throw it.
Although you could load it onto an old kindle and throw that.
The problem is they are completely different. Nineteen Eighty-Four is about when he government has total control. Roxon is doing her job by pushing for these recomendations. I Don’t think she beleives they will come into play in the fasion they are proposed.
The discussion paper was about what powers they needed in ideal circumstances.
“Roxon is doing her job by pushing for these recomendations.”
No, her job is to represent the Australian people — who have overwhelmingly demonstrated that they oppose this surveillance and data retention package.
And that is precisely what the Australian Electorate and most of the Citizens of Western Democracies have forgotten Renai. They are OUR Representatives and not the Multinational Corporations, nor Lobby Group’s Representatives. If that is what they want to be and represent them and not us, well I am not foolish enough to vote for them.
Time for Australian’s to wake up again and steer our own course for our own future, which can be nothing like Nineteen Eighty-four if we decide to think for ourselves.
@Renai
‘No, her [Roxon's] job is to repress the Australian people …’ Fixed that 4 ya.
‘… reading Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, personally — it gives us a glimpse of what our society could be …’ Regrettably, most ctizens of most societies are unlikely to agree about the ideal shape of their society, but we are being given plenty of practice in identifying the kind that we jointly do *not* need or desire.
Probably pick up a DVD of the movie for around the same price as well, if not less.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is public domain in Australia, so you can find it in a few places, legally:
- Adelaide Uni: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79n/ [epub, mobi, html]
- Planet eBooks: http://www.planetebook.com/1984.asp [pdf]
Personally, I love the Adelaide University ebook collection. They have a pretty good variety of public domain works in multiple accessible formats. :)
Thanks for those links, a few books in there I’ve been meaning to read, saves me looking for a copy :)
I like this idea, but surely there are a few other books she may find useful as well. Perhaps some Solzhenitsyn, or maybe just the Diary of Anne Frank?
Alternatively, I have a copy of The Prince that may come in handy.
I think politicians would benefit from reading Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, personally — it gives us a glimpse of what our society could be, if we actually aspired to something. Star Trek TNG is also a good vision of this.
It is not only Roxon and the Labor Party that causes concern. Abbott and the Liberals do not appear to have opposed any of this! So we have a cross party agreement?
How ironic would it be if Roxon ended up receiving hundreds of copies of 1984 in the mail and ended up burning them all to get rid of them?
Orwell would die laughing at that one.
I’ll send a copy now!
If she started to burn books we could send her Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. How apt!
Pointed, peaceful protest. Genius!
I’ve just saved a digital copy of it on my desktop under the folder “Federal Police Don’t Look in Here”
Now I wait for her to read it…
Roxon – “Yes! This passed law is about to start working in our favour!” *opens folder* “.. bugger not again”
lol it would be hilarious if the AFP actually did look in there and found it :)
I guess you’ll have to commit some sort of criminal activity and attract their attention to find out ;)
If these powers get through as proposed unfortunately that will no longer be the case.
They may “disrupt” your device as a 3rd party (and without including you on original, or any warrant) to get to someone that is under direct investigation.
Do you everything about the people you interact with online? What private messages have you exchanged with them? Could the spooks be interested in them?
Why not? They are also proposing to make getting a warrant more streamlined (read no checks and balances) so it wouldn’t take much to go on a fishing expedition.
As with our foreign policy, defence spending etc., she’s simply doing what her masters in Washington are telling her to do. After our next election, the policy will remain. Only the names will change – but not to protect the innocent! Roxon’s only there to cop the flack.
Sending Orwell’s book is a neat idea, but it won’t change anything.
What a fucking bullshit story – “Flooding her office with….”
Oh like umm how many people so far? What is that? 9 of them?
Ummmmm who really gives a fuck.
Idiot journalism.
I hate to be annoying but she’s not a Senator.
True — fixed.
They have good intentions, but have no idea how the Feds work… the books will be intercepted by very low level mailroom kids and consigned to an incinerator, or recycled to come back as Labor how to vote cards.
Maybe we should start sending to everyone we come across the E-Book, since here in Oz it is in the Public Domain. If everyone read it, it would certainly send shivers down the spine of a lot of people who have never read it. It certainly make the Politicians of the major Parties cringe in horror to see it become the number one book read in the Country. LOL
i have decided to make a piece of malware… fear not people, this malware will not be harmful and will hopefully help destroy these data retention proposals….
my malware will monitor network traffic and when usage is low, it will start pinging massive amounts of IP addresses, this will make all the data that the ISP’s have to collect useless as it will be impossible to distinguish between the malware and actual usage… FUCK YOU NICOLA ROXON
Liam,
Can you put it in the Public Domain? I’m sure there would be many users.
Purchased and sent her a copy. Delivery time approx mid October. Wonder what the mail room in Parliament House is going to see in the next couple of weeks?
Superb site you have here but I was wondering if you knew of any message
boards that cover the same topics discussed
here? I’d really love to be a part of community where I can get advice from other experienced people that share the same interest. If you have any recommendations, please let me know. Thank you!