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Perhaps Abbott should have first had a conversation with Australians as to whether they wish to trade their fundamental civil liberties (never to be regained) for a 1 in 3.5 million chance of being blown up/dismembered by one of those oh so scary fundamentalists?
Perhaps he doesn’t want to know the vast majority do not wish to be hacked, monitored, have every data packet surveilled, every email monitored, every phone call tapped, all because someone, somewhere used an electronic device or peripheral to plan something untoward?
We have crossed into a police state folks, no doubt about it. Most probably the ASIO et al. freaks have been doing all of this already, and wish to have compliant legislation to cover their tracks
The internet is militarised and no longer your friend. Act accordingly, preferably by installing a variant of Linux as a first starter and encrypting every form of internet traffic you can (ditto personal information).
If they want your communication, give them your encrypted communication as a big FU to their Stasi regime. They can’t decrypt it all, nor attack every weakness in associated computer, O/S and internet infrastructure to get at everything they want.
Run Tor, push applications through Tor, give limited header data on emails etc, use Jitsi or other encrypted Skype alternatives, use encrypted chat options, use VOIP over Tor, use a raspberry pi as a proper firewall or Tor-enforcing conduit, encrypt your home volumes and important files and documents, Limit unsafe bittorent and other peer connections, run HTTPs everywhere, keep you system updated at all times, check your system logs etc.
If you are a corporate or org with some spare cash, run Linux servers that act purely as Tor nodes, preferably exit nodes which there are not enough of. We need an explosion in encrypted Tor traffic and the size of the network to help stop NSA and other attacks on it and de-anonymising users.
