Saturday 28 May 2016

Dili draws a line in the sand over sea boundaries

Nikkei Asian Review:

"A 2006 treaty shelved the boundary issue for 50 years and gave East Timor a 50% share in the Greater Sunrise gas field, which sits in the disuputed zone, up from the 18% it would have received without the treaty. But East Timor maintains that the deal has been voided by revelations that Australian spies eavesdropped on Timorese negotiators during the negotiations in the mid-2000s."



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Election 2016: Shadow of long-forgotten Iraq falls over campaign

 afr.com:

"The 2003 decision to invade Iraq was just as controversial then as it remains today, in the US, the UK and in Australia.

Part of the political drama that played out here involved an officer of an arm of Australia's national security establishment. In the Office of National Assessments, Andrew Wilkie resigned in protest in early 2003 at what he claimed was government manipulation of intelligence material on Iraq (and became an MP in 2010)."



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Why Chinese investment is nowhere near as big as you think

 afr.com:

"Some are keen to suggest it is. When the lease to operate Darwin Port was sold to a Chinese privately owned company last year, some defence hawks claimed this might facilitate spying by the Chinese state and undermine Australia's security alliance with the US.

But the chiefs of the Department of Defence, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) all rejected such fearmongering."



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ASIO just doing its job on Paul Dibb KGB probe: ex-spy officer

theAustralian:

A former ASIO officer has def­ended the spy agency’s decision to investigate defence expert Paul Dibb about his contacts with KGB agents in the Cold War.

“ASIO was just doing its job when it investigated Dibb,” said Molly Sasson, who worked on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s Soviet espionage desk in Canberra in the 1970s."



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More eyes on ransomware

IT World Canada News:

"On Saturday the Globe and Mail reported that the Five Eyes group of intelligence-sharing countries — Canada, the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand — are making a major effect to attack the sources of ransomware. One RCMP official is quoted as saying it looks like criminals are industrializing cybercrime with ransomware."



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