Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Sacha,
It's a simple tradeoff between accuse or access, innit?
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Sacha,
Defence Force denies spying on Stephenson. Minister believes them.
Have they actually denied spying on him in any way? The report I heard said they denied any unlawful/illegal surveillance. Given that the legality of what the GCSB et al have been doing is one of the points at issue, y'know....
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Aidan,
There was a chap in the US who did this very thing. He was being watched by the authorities, but he didn't think it was justified, so he published ALL details of his existence online. Can't find it now.
I guess they terminated him.
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The current regime acts as though it believes the law is the no man's land which separates the people from the rulership. We are responsible to the law, they are not. We are responsible to them, they are not responsible to us.
How many law changes in the term of the John Key 'presidency' have made life easier for the citizens, as opposed to those that have made life easier for the gummint?
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Hard News: Key Questions, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Well I think I am asking that. But the remit of the NZ police is to police NZ law in NZ; the GCSB is connected to national security which at least has some international dimension.
I think the domains got tangled (as I see it we go from US commerce > US law enforcement > NZ Govt > NZ law enforcement > specious criminality) and I wonder if/where/how the NZ national security implication and the legal framework for it breaks down. -
Can some informed person direct me to the legal justification which allowed an organisation, putatively set up to protect the interests of national security, to operate so as to protect the commercial interests of a foreign corporation? Does cooperation with a NZ police investigation really extend that far?
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to 81stcolumn,
Ministry of Social Data
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to BenWilson,
Fixing it now is better than never fixing it at all, regardless of how bad it is now.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
My bad. In context informing the MSD was taking trouble to do the right thing - it's not as if there weren't more lucrative options around. (By the way, do you know how much effort it takes to have a serious conversation with a government department?!)
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to insider,
Curious why you put "troubles" in quotation marks when there is no reference to troubles in the original story nor this clarification.
If I was less naive I'd think you were "poisoning the well" :-p