Qld Police to get password powers

[nitram]

Police to get password powers Where ?????

Simon Hayes

JUNE 06, 2006

 

Artical

 

 

QUEENSLAND [bloodyQld'ers] Police are to be given power to force suspects to hand over passwords and encryption codes.

 

Civil libertarians warn the laws could allow corrupt police to fake evidence, because they will have access to suspects' digital signatures.

 

 

The legislation, to come into force in July, covers mobile phones, PCs, handhelds and other electronic devices. Non-compliance carries up to 12 months' jail.

 

The amendments to the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act will make Queensland the only state with legislation preventing suspects from claiming the right to silence concerning passwords and computer encryption.

 

NSW and federal police have similar powers under the federal Crimes Act.

 

So have they had them all along and dont use it, Are our fellow Qld growers in Brissy or the G/Coast Under that much pressure.

 

This law prevents criminals from withholding electronic evidence by forcing them to give police access to data from their computers, mobile phones and other electronic storage devices."

 

I'm getting a sniff of old reserected thems in this artical dated JUNE 06, 2006 by this Simon Hayes

 

blab blab blab ..... oh the link to paedophilia - just seeing if it mentions marigron

 

In Parliament {Ms Smith} focussed on the effect the legislation would have on paedophilia investigations, which often involve data on hard drives.

 

"It will allow police to get to the information in a speedier fashion to enable them to identify whether paedophilia-related activity has been engaged in," she said.

 

Ironically federal legislation due to come into force shortly is moving in the opposite direction, offering users more protection for so-called stored data such as voicemails and SMS messages

 

Well qld peeps is your TXT messages , emails, computer passwords, digital cameras ect much sort after ?

 

OR

 

Is this just old news and I love this bit at the end

 

Ironically federal legislation due to come into force shortly is moving in the opposite direction, offering users more protection for so-called stored data such as voicemails and SMS messages.

 

Old news made new . . . . . 'scare mongering' raising the level of social fear. It's amazing what fear leads to in the social context of high costs to just having fun. Dose 'generation Y' know what the baby boomers had and it being eroded away.

 

Rhis is what happens if you have an hour and just jump at an email subsription artical after a few chuffs. ya get

 

Nitty out

[WantDaChronic]

you'd think they'd just give their computer teams more funding instead of forcing people to hand over their passwords and encryption codes, but scare mongerering works in mysterious ways

[dude007]

they can't force me to give them my password, in their dreams! as if! get a life pigs!

[pipeman]

I assume this is only where the item is covered by a search warrant. In which case I think its no big deal.

 

If they can take your computer they will get access to the info on it easily enough irrespective of whether or not you give them the password.

[didj]

Doesnt that seem a little retarded? If they're going to the effort of trying to read your disks/mail/etc, youd think it would be for a major offence (something that would get you more than 12months). If they cant get a conviction without the data, it basically gives the person a 12mo cap on their sentence

 

That it, unless after 12mo, they can try you again, and give you another 12mo, and so on, which is plain fucked up

Edited June 8, 2006 by didj

[nitram]

dude007 ... they can't force me to give them my password, in their dreams! as if! get a life pigs!

 

Probably not, but it is possibvly one more charge you didn't need for future empoyers to view. As it is whatever job I go for one question is never missed. It's the question about any prior pediofile, murder, assault, burgulary, DUI, drug, or terrorist charges ect ect ......

 

It's the one question you don't want to be answering 'YES' too - or lie about either nowdays, as big brother's recordeing yor every run in with the 'pigs'.

[raverspec]

I assume this is only where the item is covered by a search warrant. In which case I think its no big deal.

 

If they can take your computer they will get access to the info on it easily enough irrespective of whether or not you give them the password.

 

Spot on.

[Guest niall]

Or simply install a keylogger under warrant and wait for you to type it in before seizing the hardware?

[thc24]

Or simply install a keylogger under warrant and wait for you to type it in before seizing the hardware?

 

 

[dude007]

I have government encryption software on my pc, which uses 256 bit encryption and is impossible to crack, even if they sieze the pc, all my sensitive stuff is protected and they'll never access it, thus no evidence for the pigs...