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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it's investigating the leak of sensitive government documents outlining a plan the government says doesn't exist and won't be implemented. The Official Kerfuffle began when Australian Murdoch organ The Daily Telegraph published a story (unlinked because it's behind a paywall) alleging …

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  1. GrumpyKiwi
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    Lying liers deny lying

    Dutton AND Bishop denying it. That's as good as 100% confirming everything to be true.

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    1. GrumpyKiwi
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      FAIL

      Re: Lying liars deny lying

      Someone should give me a thumbs down for not being competent enough to spell liars...

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    2. Woza
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      Re: Lying liers deny lying

      Yes Minister taught me the first rule of politics: Never believe anything until it's been officially denied.

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  2. ocratato

    The sad thing is that ASD are the perfect group to do stuff to improve cyber security in Australia - something that seems to be lacking from .gov.au down.

    Unfortunately, now that they have been dragged into Dutton's Super Security Department no one will trust them.

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  3. eldakka
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    > were proposing to give the sigint agency the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) power to spy on Australians in Australia.

    But don't they just have to ask the other members of Five-Eyes (US,UK,NZ,CAN) for their intercepts of Australian citizens? After all, it isn't against US law to intercept/monitor Australian citizens communications, only their own. And usually the same in the other members.

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  4. Big-nosed Pengie

    It's OK - we don't need DSD to collect data on us. We'll just buy it from the US.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Betcha they lost the Docs

    "sensitive government documents outlining a plan the government says doesn't exist and won't be implemented."

    They lost the Docs and unable to find them, the Gov cannot implement it.

    forgot to copy them and probably sent the originals docs to the Journo,

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    1. Woza
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      Re: Betcha they lost the Docs

      "probably sent the originals to the Journo" - someone misunderstood the phrase 'offsite backup'?

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