Rovio Denies Collaborating with NSA, GCHQ

"Rovio Entertainment, the software company behind the mega-popular “Angry Birds” game franchise, denied in an official statement that it knowingly shares data with the NSA, Britain’s GCHQ, or any other national intelligence agency."



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Web Semantics: a glossary of the key terms in the NSA-GCHQ Snowden leaks | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com

"“Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)

“The term used by the NSA to refer to efforts to exploit data gathered from its targets."



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NSA, GCHQ YouTube and Facebook mass spying programs revealed | BGR

"More documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden detail another bulk data collection spying initiative that consists of monitoring services like Facebook and Google’s YouTube and Blogger in order to accurately observe trends with the general, worldwide population, and even predict certain events. NBC News has obtained a copy of a presentation delivered by GCHQ to the NSA in 2012 that details a “Squeaky Dolphin” mass surveillance program – a real-time user and data collection initiative that monitors YouTube views, Facebook likes and Blogspot or Blogger visits for analysis."



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Category:Australia - WikiLeaks

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WikiLeaks - The Spyfiles #3

"Today, Wednesday 4 September 2013 at 1600 UTC, WikiLeaks released ’Spy Files #3’ – 249 documents from 92 global intelligence contractors. These documents reveal how, as the intelligence world has privatised, US, EU and developing world intelligence agencies have rushed into spending millions on next-generation mass surveillance technology to target communities, groups and whole populations"



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‘Our views are far apart’: German chancellor slams US, UK over spying — RT News

"Countries spying on their allies sow distrust that could result in less, rather than more security, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned. She particularly referred to the surveillance and spying activities by the US and the UK."



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Facebook - Damien Minton Gallery

"Gary Foley called into the Damien Minton Gallery to check the Persons Of Interest surveillance photos yesterday. The show is on until Saturday. If you get the chance call in. 583 Elizabeth St. Cleveland St. Redfern"



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'Spying Birds': Hackers deface Angry Birds website following NSA revelations — RT News

"Hackers briefly vandalized the website of popular mobile game Angry Birds after revelations that its users’ data has been leaked to the NSA. But the app’s Finnish maker has hit out at accusations that it is helping spy agencies."



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Top lawyer to MPs: GCHQ mass surveillance largely illegal — RT News

"A substantial part of the GCHQ’s dragnet snooping program is most likely illegal and was approved by government ministers despite breaching human rights and surveillance laws, a legal analysis requested by British MPs has found, The Guardian reports."



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EPL product details: DSD Defence Signals Directorate

"Pointsec PC Version 4.3 is a hard disk encryption application. It is a software based security product for the Microsoft Windows based PC platform that employs both boot authentication and transparent disk encryption to provide protection of information resources stored on fixed media in a workstation or laptop. Multiple user authentication mechanisms are supported, including fixed passwords, dynamic/challenge-response authentication, smart cards, and remote help. Successful authentication is required before the operating system is allowed to boot."



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ASIO raids: Australia accuses East Timor of 'frankly, offensive' remarks - Netherlands - News - Islands Business magazine

"THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS ---- Australia has accused East Timor of making "frankly, offensive" remarks before the International Court of Justice about Attorney-General George Brandis, as its lawyers suggested the tiny nation may have encouraged the commitment of a serious crime here."



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ASIO raids: Australia accuses East Timor of 'frankly, offensive' remarks - Netherlands - News - Islands Business magazine

"THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS ---- Australia has accused East Timor of making "frankly, offensive" remarks before the International Court of Justice about Attorney-General George Brandis, as its lawyers suggested the tiny nation may have encouraged the commitment of a serious crime here."



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EPL product details: DSD Defence Signals Directorate

"Encryptor modem operating at 2400 or 9600bps. Approved models C860001 and C860011."



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EPL product details: DSD Defence Signals Directorate

Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) is a solution that enables the network infrastructure to enforce security policies on all devices seeking to access network computing resources."



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Facebook - Finale episode - Frank Hardy

"Tonight's finale of PERSONS OF INTEREST is Frank Hardy.

Hardy's book Power Without Glory was the beginning of ASIO's war on Australian culture. Writers, artists, Filmmakers, folk singers and actors all became targets. "



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NT Police listen in to the tune of $1 million | Herald Sun

NT POLICE spent nearly $1 million listening in to Territorians' communications and accessed telephone and internet records more than 3000 times last financial year, according to a federal Attorney-General's Department report."



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Persons of Interest revives Cold War politics and the ASIO debate

The screening of the documentary series Persons of Interest on SBS, in which former targets of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) surveillance examine their files, has prompted some spirited public debate on the role of ASIO during the Cold War period in Australia."



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How East Timor made our new G-G | Sky News Australia

"But his springboard was East Timor where he gained enormous respect and affection as head of INTERFET, the multinational peacekeeping force during the country's traumatic transition to independence."



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GCHQ taught NSA how to monitor Facebook, Twitter in real time – Snowden leak — RT USA

"British intelligence officials can infiltrate the very cables that transfer information across the internet as well as monitor users in real time on sites like Facebook without the company's consent, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden."



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​NSA, GCHQ use phone apps to scoop user data — RT News

"The US National Security Agency and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, have the ability to harvest sensitive personal data from phone apps that transmit users’ data across the web, such as the extremely popular Angry Birds game."



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Leadership team – National Archives of Australia

"He left Business Synetics in 2002 to join ASIO as it was embarking on an extraordinary period of growth and change. For five years he held the position of CIO, driving innovation in technical infrastructure, analytical capability and digital information management. "



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Brandis moves to protect what Australia knew of Indonesian war crimes

"Federal Attorney-General George Brandis has moved to block the release of secret archives that would reveal the Australian government's knowledge of Indonesian war crimes in East Timor."



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Documentary puts author back in spotlight | The Standard

 "CONTROVERSIAL Koroit-born author Frank Hardy will return to the spotlight with a documentary about his secret service file, two decades after his death."



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Ex-spy chief Ian McKenzie stands by SBY mission | The Australian

"THE former head of the Australian intelligence agency at the centre of the Indonesian spy controversy has broken his silence to defend the integrity of his agency and staff, saying they worked ethically and within the law. "



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NSA devises radio pathway into computers isolated from web

"The US has targeted Unit 61398, the Shanghai-based Chinese army unit believed to be responsible for many of the biggest cyber attacks on the US, in an effort to see attacks being prepared. With Australia's help, one NSA document suggests, the US has also focused on another specific Chinese army unit."



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International Court of Justice adjudicating on troubled waters

"In the International Court of Justice this week, as lawyers from Australia and East Timor traded barbs and legal argument in equal measure, the emotions have been raw."



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Abbott putting our forces' reputation at risk

"PROBABLY the most damaging aspect of the Abbott government's handling of foreign affairs in its first four months in office is the harm done to the reputation of the Australian Defence Force."



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East Timor: Oil and troubled borders

"Amid claims of bullying and spying, an international court must decide if Australia has acted fairly in its dealings with East Timor."



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ASIO storms Damien Minton Gallery | artsHub Australia

"Soviet Defector Mrs Evdokia Petrov on the beach in Sydney with an ASIO officer, 1954. Courtesy Smart Street Films."



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ASIO raids: Australia accuses East Timor of 'frankly, offensive' remarks

"Australia has accused East Timor of making "frankly, offensive" remarks before the International Court of Justice about Attorney-General George Brandis, as its lawyers suggested the tiny nation may have encouraged the commitment of a serious crime here."



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Timor pours oil on spy fire | The Australian

"IT was a case of saving the best to last. On the third and final day of the proceedings brought by East Timor before the International Court of Justice in The Hague this week, vice-president Bernardo Sepulveda Amor put what seemed like a very tough question to Australia's phalanx of 15 legal representatives."



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UN court hears East Timor case against Australia | SBS News

"Australia has promised to return documents concerning the jointly managed undersea oil and gas fields with East Timor, if they aren't a security threat.  "



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Australia defends raid on East Timor lawyer | SBS News

"Australia has defended its agents' raid on the office of a lawyer for East Timor last month as a legitimate defence of Australian national security."



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Canberra accused of unprecedented and improper conduct

"East Timor has launched an assault on Australia's global reputation, and raised some ''novel'' points of international law, as it pressed the International Court of Justice to order the return of documents seized during raids by ASIO on the offices of the country's lawyer last month."



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Australia cites national security in E. Timor spy row - Yahoo!7

The Hague (AFP) - "National security" concerns prompted Australia to raid the offices of a lawyer representing East Timor in a spy row over an oil and gas treaty, the United Nations' top court heard Tuesday."



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Declassified Photos Reveal How ASIO Spent Time Spying On '70s Actors, Writers & Journalists | Business Insider

"In later life, journalist PP “Paddy” McGuinness forged a reputation as a blistering right-wing columnist. But he started out with left leanings, which were a bit of a worry to Australia’s domestic spy agency, ASIO, who had a file on McGuinness among an estimated 500,000 citizens they had under surveillance through the middle of the 20th Century."



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ASIO Took It – But Was It Timor’s or Australia’s? | The Global Mail

ASIO Took It – But Was It Timor’s or Australia’s? | The Global Mail: "At the International Court of Justice, a judge asked, basically, whether big, rich Australia had pinched stuff that belonged to tiny, poor East Timor?"



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SBS On Demand | TV and Online Video - Persons Of Interest S1 Ep3

"Gary Foley - Each episode, an Australian 'person of interest' is given their previously secret ASIO intelligence file and discusses their time under ASIO surveillance. The series uncovers never-before-seen photographs and covert surveillance film recorded by ASIO. For the first time, 'persons of interest' and former ASIO officers and agents reveal the powerful stories within the files. Tonight profiles high profile Aboriginal activist Gary Foley who was a member of the Black Power Movement and a leader in the fight for land rights and social justice. (From Australia) (Documentary) (Part 3 of 4) M CC"



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Controversial Sheikh Haron faces accessory to ex-wife s murder charge - Yahoo!7

"A self-proclaimed sheikh has faced Parramatta Local Court over the death of his ex-wife in Sydney's west."



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ASIO and NT cops spied on, meddled with careers of Territorians | NT News

"NEWS
ASIO and NT cops spied on, meddled with careers of Territorians
EXCLUSIVE BY ALISON BEVEGE NT NEWS JANUARY 21, 2014 2:04PM 10

AUSTRALIA'S secret service spied on Territorians - including the NT News editor - files released under the Archives Act show.


ASIO photos released under the Archives Act, of 'people of interest' at a rally in 1976. Source: Supplied
Dozens of Territory citizens including current federal MP Warren Snowdon, former NT News editor Jim Bowditch, pearling magnate Nick Paspaley Sr and activist Rob Wesley-Smith were the subjects of ASIO surveillance, Cold War-era files released after a request from Mr Wesley-Smith."



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ASIO raids: Australia accuses East Timor of 'frankly, offensive' remarks

"Australia has accused East Timor of making "frankly, offensive" remarks before the International Court of Justice about Attorney-General George Brandis, as its lawyers suggested the tiny nation may have encouraged the commitment of a serious crime here."



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Claims ASIO, CIT spied on Canberra student dismissed - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"A student who claimed ASIO and the Canberra Institute of Technology were spying on her, has had her case thrown out."



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Spies wasted on opinions | NT News

"COLD War-era files released recently under the Archives Act reveal that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) spied on dozens of Territory citizens back in the 1970s."



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Inside the Muslim youth group accused of radical connections - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"A Muslim youth organisation in Queensland that says it steers young men away from crime and jihad is facing allegations of radical and controversial associations, including to a notorious bikie and an alleged suicide bomber."



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Spies behind trees is a national farce

"The four-part series Persons of Interest on SBS has taken me back to the days when I was put under surveillance by ASIO agents. As has been noted by various academics, including David McKnight, ASIO's incompetence was legendary. This point was only emphasised after my partner and I spent a few days in the National Archives reading room going through the 25 folders that ASIO had kept on me. At times we had to contain ourselves from laughing."



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Islamic outreach group Ummah United says ASIO risks radicalising young Muslims in need of mentors - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"It was the "gangster feel" of Muslim outreach organisation Ummah United that caught the eye of Tayyab Khan."



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TV review: Nothing nice about naughty ASIO files

"The first surveillance state we are introduced to is supposedly benign: as children we are told that Santa is keeping an eye on us, for the purposes of his naughty or nice files. But as documented in Persons of Interest (SBS One, 8.30pm), it turns out that Australia's national security service, ASIO, spent decades compiling its own lists, on which everyone it cast a glance at was very, very naughty."



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Ghosts and Memory Sticks: Court Hears East Timor Case Against ASIO Swoop | The Global Mail

"Timor accuses Australia of spying during lead up to the countries’ landmark 2006 oil and gas treaty – and of seizing evidence from a whistleblower witness backing up their claims. Now Timor wants it back. Inside day one of a polite but firm hearing at The Hague."



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George Brandis vows not to read documents ASIO seized

"Attorney-General George Brandis has given an extraordinary undertaking not to read highly sensitive documents seized by ASIO agents in a raid on East Timor's lawyer last year as Australia tries to thwart the fledgling nation's bid in the International Court of Justice to have the material returned."



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East Timor calls on The Hague to condemn ASIO raids

"East Timor has called on the International Court of Justice to deliver a "clear, firm and severe" condemnation of Australia for using ASIO agents to raid the office of its Canberra-based lawyer."



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Public Interest Disclosures: DIO Defence Intelligence Organisation

The Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (PID Act) commenced on 15 January 2014. The PID Act encourages and facilitates the disclosure of information by both current and former public officials about suspected wrongdoing in the public sector. You can find out more about the PID Act at Commonwealth Ombudsman: Public Interest Disclosure Scheme."

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20 minutes - The answers to the NSA scandal - News

"The so-called "Five Eyes". These are allies, which coordinate the monitoring. These include the United States (National Security Agency), United Kingdom (with the Government Communications Headquarters), Australia (Defence Signals Directorate), Canada (Communications Security establishment Canada) and New Zealand (Government Communications Security Bureau).
The major programs leading to the be used monitoring and evaluation of electronic media glad Prism, tenses and Echelon."

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Coalition defies Jakarta on boats | The Australian

"THE Abbott government will continue to turn asylum boats at sea despite fresh demands from Jakarta that the practice be suspended until Australia provides "clarification" about previous cross-border incursions."

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East Timor, Australia, and Arbitration in The Hague |-world-| Tempo.co

"TEMPO.CO , Dili -   East Timor has asked the International Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, Australia ordered to return all documents confiscated in a raid at the office of a lawyer, Bernard Collaery, in Canberra, in December 2013 then. "

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Concern that young Australians drawn to Syrian conflict are 'being exploited' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"The New South Wales Community Relations Commission has expressed concern that young Australians who are drawn into overseas conflicts are being exploited."

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No defence for targeted people as spymasters call tune

"THE DEATH of former Labor minister and long-time senator Arthur Gietzelt a fortnight ago was greeted in some media with much commentary on his links with the Communist Party of Australia."

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With Sophie on board, what of the Fleet of Foolishness? | OPINION | The Border Mail

"The strange thing is, as the government prepares its first budget and has set up the National Commission of Audit, one of the biggest, most dysfunctional, most wasteful and most misguided proposed programs has not even been mentioned."

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East Timor demands Australia return documents - The Washington Post

CANBERRA, Australia — East Timor said it will ask an international court in the Netherlands on Monday to order Australia to return documents seized by the Australian secret service relating to a legal dispute over oil and gas revenue-sharing between the countries."

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Australians fighting in Syria could lose citizenship, Scott Morrison signals | World news | theguardian.com

"Immigration minister looking at emulating powers used in UK to prevent the return of dual nationals who go out to fight"

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SBY felt betrayed by 'best friend' Tony | NT News

"THE Indonesian president has lamented Tony Abbott's handling of last year's spying row, revealing in a new book he felt betrayed by the Australian prime minister, who he had considered to be a good friend."

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Damien Minton Gallery

"ASIO
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

WED 22 JANUARY - SAT 1 FEBRUARY 2014"

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Defence mulls surveillance malware export restrictions - Security - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

"Australia's Department of Defence will consult with the technology industry on plans to add security exploits and some hacking tools to controlled export lists.

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Whistleblower protection law comes into effect | SBS News

"Under the Public Interest Disclosure Act, public officials reporting wrongdoing within Commonwealth public sector agencies will be guaranteed anonymity, and immunity from liability and disciplinary action."

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Spies forced from building after smoke in ASIO headquarters - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"A number of Australian spies were forced from their Canberra offices this morning while firefighters investigated smoke inside the ASIO building."

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Persons of Interest: ASIO, the NT Special Branch, blackfellas and Yippies – the struggle for Land Rights in Darwin | The Northern Myth

"I know that the Special Branch of the NT Police was following us around. The Police gave a lot of Aboriginal people the impression that – and this is a story I heard so often – “You are causing trouble. You are troublemakers. You are getting us all into trouble.”"

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Masters of Counterterrorism - Jobs? - Education

"I've just been offered a place at Macquarie University to study a Master of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. I know there are several threads about this degree already but I have more specific questions."

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EPL product details: DSD Defence Signals Directorate

"The TOE is Juniper Networks JUNOS 10.4 R4 for J-Series and SRX-Series Platforms, which primarily supports the definition of and enforces information flow policies among network nodes. "

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Australia also has its Datagate - Italian geopolitical magazine - Limes

Canberra is confronted with the biggest spy scandal in its history. Indonesia, after recalling its ambassador, said a road map to mend relations. Tensions with China, India, Japan, South Korea and East Timor "

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New sheriff in town - Cover story - January 2014 - Islands Business magazine

"After just five months in office, the Abbott government has become embroiled in controversy over spying on neighbouring governments like Indonesia and Timor-Leste, and the issue is likely to erupt in the South Pacific during 2014. "

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Australians drawn by radicals in Syrian conflict | MuslimVillage.com

"THE Syrian civil war is attracting Australian jihadists like no other conflict before it."

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The inevitable descent into government gobbledygook

"However, another was reportedly furious when his public servants took him for a fool and wrote "Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)", as though he didn't know what ASIO stood for; he ensured that the department knew of his displeasure."

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Concern that young Australians drawn to Syrian conflict are 'being exploited' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"The New South Wales Community Relations Commission has expressed concern that young Australians who are drawn into overseas conflicts are being exploited."

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Carafano: Snowden is a traitor in all but name | www.statesman.com

"Edward Snowden stole hundreds of thousands of American secrets and sprinkled them across the Internet. Should he be considered a traitor?"

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Sydney woman Amira Ali dies with husband Yusuf in Syria | The Australian

"A SYDNEY woman who travelled to meet her husband in Syria has become Australia's first female fatality in the deadly conflict, after the couple died amid vicious infighting between the rebel forces."

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ASIO spying on Syria fund-raisers amid terrorism funding fears

 "Australia's intelligence agencies have been monitoring phone calls, freezing bank accounts and making covert home visits to warn people donating money to Syrian war victims that they suspect the funds might instead be financing terrorism."

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Spies' political muscle an open secret but that's about all we know

"Forget 007; forget the cars, the blondes, the exotic locations and the martinis stirred, not shaken. Think federal government bureaucracy and ASIO becomes an organisation much easier to understand."

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Totalitarian slurs ignore the truth of ASIO activities | The Australian

"MEET Haydn Keenan, the writer and director of the four-part Persons of Interest documentary, by Smart Street Films, which started on SBS One last Tuesday. Keenan recently told Fairfax Media journalist Bridget McManus that, in the 1960s, he "regarded" himself "as a humanist and, therefore, probably left of centre and leaning towards socialism"."

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PRISM (surveillance program) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"PRISM is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program known to have been operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007."

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Echelon note: Basis and History

"ECHELON has been claimed as "the largest electronic spy network in history". In essence it is an information sharing mechanism that involves the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It encompasses telecommunications, in particular satellite and microwave traffic."

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Cabinet papers reveal tough path of reform during Bob Hawke's term | World news | theguardian.com

"Bob Hawke’s government agreed to toughen background checks on Australian intelligence agency staff to “allay any concern by our intelligence partners that our standards fall short of their own”, according to newly released cabinet documents from 1986 and 1987."

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An Ominous Warning From 1991 About The Huge Risk Involving People Like Edward Snowden | Business Insider

"A NSA document from 1991 provides some insight on why Vladimir Putin called Edward Snowden a Christmas present after he landed in Moscow on June 23."

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Richard Ackland: Joining the dots could produce red faces among our spymasters

"Dot One: In 2004, David Irvine, the head of the external spy agency, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, ordered the bugging of rooms used by ministers of East Timor."

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Asylum-seekers allege mistreatment by Australian navy - Channel NewsAsia

"Tensions were already running high between the neighbours after a diplomatic row erupted in November over claims Australian spies tried to tap the phones of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and ministers."

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Tuesday, January 14

"First screened at last year's Melbourne International Film Festival, this four-part documentary examines the ASIO files kept on four men - Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, author-journalist Roger Milliss, student activist Michael Hyde and novelist Frank Hardy"

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ASIO's secret eye on communists opened | The Australian

 "DOCO-MAKER Haydn Keenan presents a four-part "secret history" of Australia, ripped from the pages of ASIO's files, starting tonight on SBS."

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Australia’s integration into US war plans against China - World Socialist Web Site

"As well as intelligence gathered by key surveillance bases such as Pine Gap, Australian agencies feed the NSA with vast amounts of data by tapping into undersea cables and operating listening posts in Australian diplomatic missions across the region."

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US/NATO missile defense key to first strike – Bruce Gagnon - News - World - The Voice of Russia: News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video

"Two of the bigger NSA listening stations are Menwith Hill up in Yorkshire, England and Pine Gap in the outback in Australia. Those are two of the biggest US NSA spy bases and the very same bases are involved in flying drones, they are involved in espionage, both against the people of Asia or Europe and against companies, corporations in Europe for example, that are bidding against American corporations.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_12_27/US-NATO-missile-defense-key-to-first-strike-Bruce-Gagnon-3713/"

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Fallout: Documentary about On the Beach - World Socialist Web Site

"Canberra’s active involvement in the “pivot”—coordinated US-Australia military operations, high-level electronic spying and military targeting through the joint Pine Gap base in central Australia and other facilities, the basing of thousands of US marines in Darwin and advanced plans for joint naval blockades against China—make Australia an immediate military target in any future conflict."

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No plans for specific ASD intelligence inquiry, says Inspector-General - Delimiter

"Australia’s Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has stated they have no plans to initiate a specific inquiry to examine allegations the Australian Signals Directorate had offered to share data about Australian citizens with foreign intelligence agencies, stating they believe current oversight of the ASD to be “sufficient”."

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Taman Shud Case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The fact that the man died in Adelaide, the nearest capital city to Woomera, a top-secret missile launching and intelligence gathering site,[61] heightened this speculation. It was also recalled that one possible location from which the man might have travelled to Adelaide was Port Augusta,[10] a town relatively close to Woomera.
Additionally, in April 1947 the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service, as part of Operation Venona, discovered that there had been top secret material leaked from Australia's Department of External Affairs to the Soviet embassy in Canberra.[62] This led to a 1948 U.S. ban on the transfer of all classified information to Australia.[62]
As a response, the Australian government announced that it would establish a national secret security service (which became the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)).[63]"

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Global Positioning Systems Asia-Pacific region and geographic information system technology - industry - 3sNews_ China's geographic information industry _ the world's largest network of geographic information industry portal

"The Australian Government also adopted "Joint Project 5408" (Joint Project 5408) for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Australian Defence Force navigation warfare (NAVWAR) the ability to provide a global positioning system navigation warfare defense capabilities. The first phase of the project is to define the research delivered in 2002, the purpose is to determine the current needed to enhance the global positioning system and replacement range."

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Armed man caught at Australian embassy in Indonesia | thetelegraph.com.au

"A MAN armed with two knives and a rope who scaled the Australian embassy wall in Jakarta is being questioned by Indonesian police."

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Terror threat high in Indonesia | The Australian

"DESPITE tensions between Jakarta and Canberra, Australia will inform Indonesia immediately if its intelligence agencies uncover evidence of terrorist threats in that country."

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Academics petition for surveillance end | The Australian

"MORE than 250 academics from around the world have signed an online petition calling for an end to "blanket mass surveillance" by intelligence agencies."

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Film buff David Stratton's starring role on ASIO spy cam

"A young David Stratton visits the Soviet embassy in Canberra, blissfully unaware that Australia's spy service is watching and snapping a photo."

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New ASIO headquarters remain empty

"Six months after former prime minister Kevin Rudd opened ASIO's new headquarters, the intelligence agency is yet to occupy the $700 million Parkes building."

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Fed police trial new net spying technology | News.com.au

"CONTROVERSIAL new technology capable of collecting and storing emails and other information sent via computer in real time will be rolled out by the Australian Federal Police next year."

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Libya advances to Pacific region | The Australian

"TWO years before the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 by Libyan terrorists over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, ASIO warned the Hawke government that Muammar Gaddafi's regime might order attacks on Qantas flights in the Middle East or Europe."

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Xenophon wants new data-interception laws | The Australian

 "FEDERAL independent Nick Xenophon wants changes to Australian telecommunications interception laws following calls for a narrowing of National Security Agency (NSA) powers."

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2014, the year that infosec gets political - governance and risk, ISPs, Foreign policy, Australian Signals Directorate, security, social, nsa, surveillance state, Bruce Schneir, MI5 - CSO | The Resource for Data Security Executives

"2013 has certainly been a watershed year for information security. But to understand how things might subsequently unfold in 2014, it's worth remembering that each and every revelation of 2013 will be processed and acted upon by humans. Humans with their unchanging human nature, and organisations created by us humans, with their similarly unchanging nature."

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Australian Intelligence Agencies

 "As with most nations, internal surveillance in Australia and external espionage involves a range of agencies - clandestine and otherwise. This page highlights some of the federal government agencies."

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DFAT's consular bill: charge Colin Russell, charge Schapelle | Crikey

"Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has threatened to charge environmental rat bag Colin Russell for the $35,000 in consular help that got him out of a Russian prison. But if she wants Russell to pay, why isn’t she sending a bill to Schapelle Corby?"

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ASIO 'spied on Indigenous activists to crush movement' | SBS News

"Australia’s domestic security agency, ASIO, spied on Indigenous activists in an attempt to crush the movement for political change in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, a retired Aboriginal studies academic claims."

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ASIO 'unlawfully'

coerced man into interview:

"Australian spies illegally coerced a man into speaking with them and failed to inform him of his rights, a tribunal says."

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the twitter conversation during the airing of Persons of Interest (my best of selection)

Geoff Derrick ‏@geoffderrick
#personsofinterest insightful doco on @SBS Disgraceful to see that ASIO spied on ordinary Aussies' most personal moments.

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz
#Personsofinterest fetish for data in distinction to intel

Ben Lever ‏@Simbera
And how you don't ever get told that they've done it. You just get fired & maybe read about it in your file decades later #PersonsOfInterest

Ben Lever ‏@Simbera Interesting to see how closely ASIO interfered with people's job prospects if they suspected them off communist leanings #PersonsOfInterest

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #Personsofinterest by the mid 1960s ASIO had lost the plot. See influence of Angleton and Golytsin

News Australia ‏@NewsAustralia .@rupertmurdoch had Marxist sympathies at Geelong Grammar and Oxford. So why did ASIO let him take over newspapers? #PersonsOfInterest

Eleri Morgan-Thomas ‏@EleriMT 19mAppalling to listen and then record such a personal conversation! There's no security implications in a pregnancy #personsofinterest

Steve Raymond ‏@ste_ray What is concerning is that even those "of no interest" are still on file #personsofinterest #sbs

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest Baby boomers enrage commos!  Yep. That's how I remember it. #RockNRoll

News Australia ‏@NewsAustralia 26mRupert Murdoch in 1950s was interested in Communism and Marxism, even hung out with a few Commies. Where's his file ASIO? #PersonsOfInterest

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest Bendigo episode straight out of Get Smart

News Australia ‏@NewsAustralia There's probably a few dozen well paid ASIO agents monitoring reaction to #PersonsOfInterest on social media right now. #SBS

Eleri Morgan-Thomas ‏@EleriMT ASIO subscribed to Tribune! And sourced their intelligence there. Hmm maybe spying is easier then I thought #personsofinterest

Anne Brophy ‏@BrophyAnne Absorbing social and political history #PersonsofInterest on @SBS reflecting on ASIO files and their effects, with hindsight

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest ASIO were effective in the Petrov case Wally Clayton (Klod) was passing on info to Soviets

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest ASIO propaganda very shrill. I remember laughing at it.

Rita El Daghl ‏@RitaElDaghl Menzies calls communism the greatest conspiracy of his time. Modern Libs  call it global warming. #PersonsOfInterest #auspol

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest greatest product of intel organisations is imaginary enemies.

Rita El Daghl ‏@RitaElDaghl F*ck these active dissidents are a scary bunch. Good thing ASIO was monitoring the truly 'bad' guys. #PersonsOfInterest

Regional Reverie ‏@regionalreverie I'm left wondering what was precisely the difference between ASIO and the Stasi. #PersonsOfInterest

Steve Raymond ‏@ste_ray Wonder how many Australians currently gave an ASIO file just for belonging to a political party or attending a rally #personsofinterest #sbs

Eleri Morgan-Thomas ‏@EleriMT Imagine reading ASIO's character critique of yourself some 40 years later #personsofinterest

d.b. valentine ‏@dbvalentine "This man is of no interest" #BoringGuy #PersonsofInterest

ΒLΔΚΚЯ ‏@blakkkr #PersonsOfInterest doco on #SBSONE is making library tech organs all tingly. ..

Tommy Carron ‏@Tommycarron Interesting Australian #ASIO spy footage being shown on @SBS TV now #Personsofinterest

webyter ‏@webyter 1h#Personsofinterest facing extra 3 hour wait to watch over here in WA

ASIO surveillance film

from Facebook, Persons of Interest - the asio files




"This is one of the very few ASIO surveillance films which has sound. The narration was added after the film was shot by an officer who identified as many of the 'persons of interest' who appear as possible. The film was then projected regularly for other ASIO officers so they got to know the people well. If they happened to come across any of these people in the course of the travels they would be able to identify them even though they may not have been that officer's target. Having worked with these films for a number of years now, I feel like I know the people personally and would be able to identify them myself." - Facebook Persons of Interest - the Asio Files

ASIO - 62 years of Australia spying

on its own people - YouTube:  

"Featured on ABC's 7.30 Report on June 17, 2011, this report by Greg Miskelly tracks the history of ASIO, spying on an extraordinary number of Australians who became 'persons of interest' because of their political views or associations."

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Persons of Interest - the asio files on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/personsofinteresttheasiofiles

ASIO's all-seeing

eye:

"The plot to murder a federal minister at a Sydney television studio must be one of the nation's great untold stories. It went like this."

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ASIO files: That looks suspicious

doesn't it?:

"ASIO's secret surveillance films and photos captured many innocent Australians. Now we can see them."

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ASIS Careers

with a difference - YouTube:




"The role of an Intelligence Officer is truly unique. It offers highly-talented people the opportunity to help protect and promote Australia's national interests. "

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ASIS head

lauds 'critical' spy work - YouTube:



"The head of Australia's overseas spy agency, Nick Warner, has spoken publicly for the first time about the work of ASIS."

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David Stratton oblivious he's been cast as a spy

ASIO's vault shows its odd choice of surveillance targets:

"A young and suave David Stratton visits the Soviet embassy in Canberra. Little does he know, but the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is watching and records the occasion with this photograph."

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Persons of interest caught in

ASIO's net | The Australian:

"DOCUMENTARY-MAKER Haydn Keenan was never one to be paranoid about spies snooping on his daily life. But creating a four-part documentary series based on ASIO's files has changed his thinking.

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George Brandis' security clean-up

leaves out messy questions:

"Loose ends tend to clutter our lives and, supposedly, a new year is a good time to tidy them up or burn them to cinders."

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Pine Gap: Australia's most secretive

location | News.com.au:

"LAST week, it was revealed that the Australian research facility Pine Gap might be indirectly responsible for US drone strikes which have killed Pakistani citizens."

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Govt keeping eye on Syria

fighters: Bishop | News.com.au:

"THE federal government is closely monitoring Australians travelling to Syria, after reports of some enlisting with a terrorist organisation to fight in the civil war."

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PERSONS OF INTEREST

a 20 minute taster.:

PERSONS OF INTEREST - a 20 minute taster. from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"PERSONS OF INTEREST - a 20 minute taster"

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Persons Of Interest - outakes #3 :

The former ASIO agent and Prime Minister Harold Holt. A strange connection.:




Persons Of Interest - outakes #3 : The former ASIO agent and Prime Minister Harold Holt. A strange connection. from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"Here, from the mouth of a former agent is the strange story of ASIO's attempts to find out what happened to Prime Minister Harold Holt, throwing a disturbing light onto their skills and methods."

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ASIO Vetting - an intro by Arthur Dent

formerly known as Albert Langer and Journalist Darce Cassidy:



ASIO Vetting - an intro by Arthur Dent formerly known as Albert Langer and Journalist Darce Cassidy from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"What Arthur has to say may seem a little shocking but it's how things work in the third world, in a revolutionary situation and here if the circumstances called for it. Its the reason people make straight for the files of the secret police when uprisings occur."

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Aussies join

new Syrian extremists | The Australian:

"AUSTRALIANS fighting in Syria are defecting to one of the world's most deadly terrorist groups, forcing Canberra to take urgent steps to deter future recruits and to punish those Australians already fighting there. During the past two months, ASIO is understood to have received intelligence of Australian fighters in Syria joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group responsible for summary executions and suicide bombings against civilians."

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Spies count

the cost:

"The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) may have made publicly available secret files opened on ''persons of interest'' during its Cold War on home-grown communism, but surveillance footage from that time is apparently not so easily accessed. Filmmaker Haydn Keenan, who made 1980s Australian cult movies Going Down and Pandemonium, scoured the ''darkened corners'' of the National Archives to find the astounding, disturbing and blackly amusing footage revealed in his four-part 2013 Walkley-nominated series, Persons of Interest."

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Muslim loses appeal

against ASIO ban | The Australian:

"A MAN with an "extremist interpretation of Islam" has lost his appeal against ASIO's assessment that he should be denied Australian citizenship because he was "likely to engage in activities prejudicial to security"."

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ASIO hears of terror attack on radio

news | News.com.au:

"WHEN Armenian terrorists tried to blow up the office of the Turkish consulate-general in Melbourne in 1986, the first the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) knew of it was a radio news broadcast."

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