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• An ID card by any other name?

  Does the planned government health and welfare access card constitute an identity card?

• John Howard needs a new phone

  Which telcos provide essential voice and data services to Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his staff?

• Rudd risks data leaks with sex and drugs screening

  Federal government ministerial staff have been asked to file details of their personal sexual history and drug habits as a measure to protect them from blackmail, leaving the government vulnerable to data leaks and hacking according to privacy advocates.

• PKI in Australia: Govt. leads the way

  Although the Australian Government's Gatekeeper initiative to implement PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology for electronic transactions was established just over three years ago, there hasn't been much headway in seeing its acceptance in the wider business community.

• Aussie IT 'must help with Labor education revolution'

  After Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement last week that Labor plans to turn every school in Australia digital, representatives of the country's IT industry are calling on the new government to establish a trade advisory group to assist in implementing its "education revolution".

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  Phone jamming hang ups

  When it comes to matters of national security, you do not have the right to know.

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  Ericsson MD's international spy scandal

  Who would have imagined that Ericsson's new local managing director would have an immediate past enmeshed in international espionage?

Features and Case Studies (8)

• An eye for an aye

  Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

• 2007: How was it for security?

  Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

• Developers must take personal responsibility: Gartner

  We sat down with security analyst Andrew Walls at Gartner ITExpo and asked him how Web 2.0 affects application security. He talked to us about how traditional desktop security measures are falling short in a Web 2.0 world and how developers need to take more personal responsibility for the security of their code.

• Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

  Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

• Offshoring: A view from both shores

  Wipro CEO Vivek Paul ponders the implications of a US that graduates more sports therapists than engineers.

Reviews (1)

• Highlights from CES Australasia 2001

  The Australasian Consumer Electronics Show has returned to the Sydney's Exhibition and Convention Centre at Darling Harbour for another week of technophile, sensory overload. Rather than screaming "I'm technology, I'm here!" this year the tone of the show seems a little more subdued. If you need a unit of measurement to gauge the size of the 2001 gathering you might be advised to choose Giga-Hertz. Wireless is a fashionable theme at recent technology shows, but this year the Australasian show's EM radiation level is being boosted by a multipartite effort to promote digital TV to consumers.

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