High level security, Russian style.
Hopefully, the thieves cannot conduct their own missile launches.
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One more change already under way! 
Supposedly an improvement in security the system relies on digital imaging technology. Something some of us may know of from the latest digital Aussie Passports and travelling OS.
It may assist the government in reducing the creation of fake IDās. Or does it simply ensure the fake ID has the image of a real person?
ITNews mentions a raft of supporting legislation and expansion to State run and other services aside from MyGov. More details might explain how the Government can assure the integrity of the system, not for government purposes, but against personal risk.
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When we purchased our current residence some 6 years ago, the owner, who we have never met, went to some very strange lenghts to hide herself.
She had moved out of the house and we inspected it with our agent and her agent just after her original contract fell over, and we bought it that day, subject to all the usual checks.
The copies of the tax invoices for the built-in appliances still under warranty had her mobile number blanked out but she had obviously forgotten that it was also on the REIQ contract documents.
She provided no forwarding address so that any mail that arrived for her was RTS or WPB as applicableā¦
Internode told us that we could not get the landline number that had been at the house, which was an easy to remember one, but assigned another easy to remember number to us.
I happened to Google the previous number and I was amazed at the various hits that I saw including-
-A list of names, addresses and landline numbers in our area.
-Copies of emails exchanged by the previous owner and a person who was at a confereence she attended
-An ad for a memorial service for her late husband.
-An inquiry with a dating site.
As they say āYou can run but you cannot hideā and āThe best laid plans of mice and menā.
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Fine tune the legislation to sleazy perfection?
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What a surprise this (not)
In the early days well before the internet and most everything we take for granted ācomputerā, a security test for certain āgovernment sitesā was to monitor the power and water going into a facility. The āgameā was most sites did not have significant computers, but a few did. If the test identified a site as having a computer it was a security fail.
This was in the day of single CPU 2 MB mainframes that individually used 100KW backed with motor generators and water cooled freon A/C exchangers that consumed even more power. Heavy stuff in the times, all puns intended.
It was about secrecy that contributed to physical protection from incoming missiles and terrorist attacks by keeping the site secret.
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The first step in this process involves getting malware onto the isolated hardware.
As soon as you have achieved this, you can say game over. Data exfiltration from an air-gapped device can be via this method using the RAM bus, or other methods demonstrated by the same team and other researchers - whether using software to control the hard drive or power supply, or shining lasers off a light bulb in the same room as the computer.
Of course, most of us do not air-gap our devices because we want the value the Internet provides - and so we are much easier to hack if we ever become government target through accident, circumstance or deliberate policy.
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This is getting tiring as well as ever more pervasive. Login using email
Isnāt it great how they all want to make our lives simpler? 
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And allow the tracking of data in the one location through one source. Efficient for the consumer, efficient for the data collectors. 
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Always log in using email. Always.
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I am not sure how that helps, it becomes another identity key to be used to track your activity.
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Indeed - unless one keeps separate emails for everything ā¦ which can get tedious ā¦ and even then, there are ways of correlating and without much difficulty ā¦
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Yes it does, I suppose, but I refuse to directly give my login stuff and where I am logged in to entitles like google and facebook. Of course eventually they will know (in an aggregated way I suppose) but why make it easy. Unless you never sign in on any website, ever, youāre screwed. May as well go offline entirely.
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In summary,
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All your base are belong to usā¦
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The Federal Government has drafted laws to protect citizens from cyber abuse.
Some Christmas humour from the government. The verb they are actually looking for is ācontrolā.
Separate emails can be useful for tracing privacy and other breaches. Separate emails can be useful for prioritising spam.
I would definitely endorse this. Unless you have verified how this is working, why would you want to give your Facebook password to some random web site? - quite apart from the privacy issues of helping Facebook to build up an even bigger picture of your life.
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An article regarding how to look out for hidden cameras.
I tried downloading Nmap but all I saw was a dogās breakfast.
I also downloaded Fing only to find that it requires a premium subscription at 59 euros annually to find hidden items.
This seems to be a classic example of extreme privacy breaches.
The media persists in invading public figures privacy and the āoffendedā want to victimise the āculpritsā.
What next? If they cannot invade peopleās privacy with cameras and microphones, will they be permitted to use the transcripts of lip readers to crucify them?
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This is a very relevant story even though US-centric. The two sides of āgoogleā are discussed in solving crimes.
An article regarding how the FBI was able to locate Ghislaine Maxwell.
āYou can run but you cannot hideā.
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