NSW is upgrading its emergency communications network to accommodate rising demand and protect the system from terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
Security agencies around the world will soon be able to share intercepted information on criminal and 'terrorist' activities far more easily after a new technical framework is introduced, a committee claims.
NSW Water Police are participating in a global satellite technology trial that could increase the amount of raw intelligence available to counter-terrorist agencies.
Prime Minister John Howard last night announced a Coalition plan to clean up Internet porn, in an effort to woo Christian voters.
Australian government computer systems were put to the test today as the nation took part in a United States-led cyber-terrorism planning exercise.
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Security expert Bruce Schneier says the danger from cyberterrorism is "overblown."
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
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The US Department of Justice on Wednesday lashed out at Internet telephony, saying the fast-growing technology could foster "drug trafficking, organised crime and terrorism."
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