[plug] [OT] Ferral Politics

[Carl Gherardi]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> > But, seriously; a slightly more relevant (to the list) question - from
> > memory, the current government was supposed to have introduced a bill, or,
> > passed into law, or, something similar, the legalising of reverse
> > engineering, for porting applications from one platform to another.
> >
> > Am I right? If so, what (if anything) came of that?
>
> Yes it was passed into law.
>
> See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/caaa2000n1102000321.
>

While on the topic of draconian laws(kinda), does anyone know whether the
bill proposed to make network scanning of any sort illegal was passed.