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2010MsBambi | July 22, 2010 reload original here mrmitee www.youtube.com rabimmel This video is in memory of rabimmel who's youtube channel has since been suspended..... www.youtube.com www.thinkfree.ca www.tpuc.org www.lawfulrebellion.org www.thebcgroup.org.uk Download Blacks Law Dictionary; www.4shared.com Props for the following text goes to; www.youtube.com Claim your notice of intent and right, define your reality. ♥ Rob! Re:Notice of Understanding of Claim & Intent. - Awesome! 1 best 'docos' u will EVER Watch. www.youtube.com - Ont1 did you know if you live in a common law jurisdiction, ie : Australia , you have to register with a corporation to even apply for a licence , same with signing over your vehicle with rego... unless you doing it for business you are allowed right of travel, in wateva possesion you own , as long as you not hurting others, ripn ppl off etc.. Oh I Wish more people knew the Australian Constitution & Learnt how powerful they could b if only they claim thier soveriegnity'. No Corporation Law or Statute Applies to you at any time unless you Consent to it. ♥ 1. You are not a person, you have a person existing in association with you. The government only acts on your person. 2. The government is composed of people. They are no better then you. 3. You and the people employed by the government are equal. 4. Nobody governs you without your consent, or the appearance of it. 5. Your SIN means you are a government employee and thus bound by the rules ...
Please rate comment and subscribe :) reload original here mrmitee rabimmel www.thinkfree.ca www.tpu... 2010MsBambi | reload original here mrmitee rabimmel http www.tpuc.org www.lawfulrebellion.org www.thebcgroup.org.uk Download Blacks Law Dictionary; www.4shared.com Props for the following text goes to; www.youtube.com Claim your notice of intent and right, define your reality. ♥ Rob! Re:Notice of Understanding of Claim & Intent. - Awesome! 1 best 'docos' u will EVER Watch. www.youtube.com - Ont1 did you know if you live in a common law jurisdiction, ie : Australia , you have to register with a corporation to even apply for a licence , same with signing over your vehicle with rego... unless you doing it for business you are allowed right of travel, in wateva possesion you own , as long as you not hurting others, ripn ppl off etc.. Oh I Wish more people knew the Australian Constitution & Learnt how powerful they could b if only they claim thier soveriegnity'. No Corporation Law or Statute Applies to you at any time unless you Consent to it. ♥ 1. You are not a person, you have a person existing in association with you. The government only acts on your person. 2. The government is composed of people. They are no better then you. 3. You and the people employed by the government are equal. 4. Nobody governs you without your consent, or the appearance of it. 5. Your SIN means you are a government employee and thus bound by the rules of government employees. 6. If you are not ...
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reload original here mrmitee rabimmel please share and subscribe thanks bambi :D This video is in memory of rabimmel who's youtube channel has since been suspended..... www.youtube.com www.thinkfree.ca www.tpuc.org www.lawfulrebellion.org www.thebcgroup.org.uk Download Blacks Law Dictionary; www.4shared.com Props for the following text goes to; www.youtube.com Claim your notice of intent and right, define your reality. ♥ Rob! Re:Notice of Understanding of Claim & Intent. - Awesome! 1 best 'docos' u will EVER Watch. www.youtube.com - Ont1 did you know if you live in a common law jurisdiction, ie : Australia , you have to register with a corporation to even apply for a licence , same with signing over your vehicle with rego... unless you doing it for business you are allowed right of travel, in wateva possesion you own , as long as you not hurting others, ripn ppl off etc.. Oh I Wish more people knew the Australian Constitution & Learnt how powerful they could b if only they claim thier soveriegnity'. No Corporation Law or Statute Applies to you at any time unless you Consent to it. ♥ 1. You are not a person, you have a person existing in association with you. The government only acts on your person. 2. The government is composed of people. They are no better then you. 3. You and the people employed by the government are equal. 4. Nobody governs you without your consent, or the appearance of it. 5. Your SIN means you are a government employee and thus bound by the rules ...
I did not create this video it was deleted it for some reason from the original creators channel and I can't remember his username. I now believe the original creator of this video was 'rabimmel' , sadly his account is now suspended. I have received criticism, because I am not the original creator of this video and I am accused of theft. I personally believe that the original creator would not have any issue with me uploading this. If anybody knows 'rabimmel's' new account please let me know so I can clarify this. Until 'rabimmel' can clarify his position the video will stay up, if anybody is not happy with this I suggest they lodge some form of complaint. But remember if you are accusing me of theft, you should maybe re-evaluate all the components of this video. Robert's YT channel; www.youtube.com www.thinkfree.ca www.tpuc.org www.lawfulrebellion.org www.thebcgroup.org.uk Download Blacks Law Dictionary; www.4shared.com Props for the following text goes to; www.youtube.com Claim your notice of intent and right, define your reality. ♥ Rob! Re:Notice of Understanding of Claim & Intent. - Awesome! 1 best 'docos' u will EVER Watch. www.youtube.com - Ont1 did you know if you live in a common law jurisdiction, ie : Australia , you have to register with a corporation to even apply for a licence , same with signing over your vehicle with rego... unless you doing it for business you are allowed right of travel, in wateva possesion you own , as long as you not hurting others ...
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Google Tech Talk January 21, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Paul Selkirk, Senior Software Engineer, Internet Systems Consortium. With the impending end of the unallocated pool of IPv4 addresses, the Internet faces a problem: there will be no more unused IPv4 space to assign as networks grow, only IPv6. Growth of the network in the future depends on effective deployment of IPv6. But migration of the existing Internet-- end user systems, content sources, enterprise networks, carrier infrastructure-- to IPv6 is only happening slowly and irregularly. The technology originally intended to support incremental deployment of IPv6, "dual-stack," in which individual end systems are capable of using both IPv4 and IPv6, is not turning out to be practical on the universal scale it was designed for. Several technologies are under development and early deployment to bridge the gap between the IPv4 internet and one that can interoperate between IPv4 and IPv6 in the interim-- perhaps lengthy-- before IPv6 is "mainstream" globally. This talk will briefly lay out the operational constraints around IPv4/IPv6 co-existence, and then describe ISC's implementation of one particular protocol, DS-lite ("Dual-stack lite"). A new product, AFTR (for "Address Family Transition Router"), implements the DS-lite protocol and provides the core of a deployable architecture for IPv4/IPv6 co-existence in carrier networks.
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...on a case that did not even involve ISP records should only heighten skepticism about the government's proposed lawful access reforms. Michael Geist, whose column on digital policy and law runs every Tuesday on The Tyee, holds the Canada Research Chair in...
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The Investigative Powers for the 21st Century (IP21C) Act, out of the Department of Justice, is also aimed at updating law enforcement tools. The bill contains four major provisions:
- First, it would allow law enforcement agencies to apply for production orders requiring service providers to provide them with transmission data sent or received via the internet or telephone.
- Second, it would allow law enforcement agencies to apply for preservation orders requiring service providers to retain data related to specific communication or an individual subscriber.
- Third, it would criminalize the arrangement or agreement online or over a telephone by two or more people of the sexual exploitation of a child.
- Finally, it would revise the existing system of tracking warrants, warrants that allow law enforcement agencies to remotely activate tracking devices in equipment such as mobile phones.*
*See CIPPIC's websites for comments: http://www.cippic.ca/projects-cases-lawful-access/
- Bill C-46 (first reading version):
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/402/Government/C-46/C-46_1/C-46_1.PDF
On June 18, 2009, the Ministry of Public Safety also introduced Bill C-47, a new bill very similar to the previous Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act. Again, this Bill contains two main components – an interception component and a subscriber information component. The Act creates a new legal obligation on telecommunications service providers to include interception capabilities in their networks. The Government claims that this does not provide law enforcement agencies with any new powers, but rather ensures a technical means is always available to execute a judicial warrant authorizing interception of communications. Certain exemptions from the requirement are granted to banks, private networks and charities, while a three-year exemption to the requirements are granted to service providers with less than 100 000 subscribers. The burden of paying for this intercept capability will fall on the service providers (and therefore ultimately the consumer) in the case of new equipment and software, while the Government will pay for retrofits to existing equipment and software.*
*See CIPPIC's website for comments: http://www.cippic.ca/projects-cases-lawful-access/
- Bill C-47 (first reading version):
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/402/Government/C-47/C-47_1/C-47_1.PDF
Google Internet Summit 2009: The State of the Internet May 5, 2009 Security Session panelists are Whit Diffie, Steve Crocker, Chris DiBona, Eric Grosse, and Howard Schmidt. On May 5 and 6, 2009, in Mountain View, we brought together Googlers and leaders from academia and the corporate world for a 2-day summit to discuss the state of the global Internet. The goal of the summit was to collect a wide range of knowledge to inform Google's future plans--from product development and market reach to users' expectations and our ability to keep the Internet open yet secure. More than 30 speakers and moderators led discussions around 8 topics: Networks; Wireless and Sensor Technologies; Security; Standards; Applications; Democracy, Law, Policy and Regulation; Search and Cloud Computing; and The Future. Eric Schmidt, who offered some remarks, expressed optimism that the challenges we face with governments' walling off access to the Internet can be overcome technologically by building networks that are transparent, scalable, and open.
Soon after the beginning of the 40th Parliament’s first session, MP Marlene Jennings introduced for a third time a private member bill (Bill C-285) very similar to the 2005 Bill C-74.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/402/Private/C-285/C-285_1/C-285_1.PDF
On October 16, 2007, MP Marlene Jennings reintroduced Bill C-416 to first reading. Although the bill was on the table for almost a year, it died with the 39th Parliament in the October 2008 Elections without ever being subject of debate.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/392/Private/C-416/C-416_1/C-416_1.PDF
Around mid-September, 2007, after a closed consultation was made public, Public Safety Canada issued a consultation paper exploring the possible expansion of the powers of law enforcement agencies to obtain subscriber identifying information. The four pages document discussed the possible creation of new provisions on this issue.* - Leaked consultation paper: http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/pdf/CNAInfoConsultationDocument.pdf - UofO professor Michael Geist's comments: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2228/84/ - Ottawa Citizen article: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=af578ca9-0d7e-4785-b939-58364e4f5845 *See CIPPIC's website for a list of comments from different organisations: http://www.cippic.ca/projects-cases-lawful-access/
On March 23rd, 2007, Liberal MP Marlene Jennings introduced a private member bill (Bill C-416) very similar to the previous Parliament’s Bill C-74. The bill got to first reading but was never mentioned again up until its reintroduction later the same year.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/391/Private/C-416/C-416_1/C-416_1.PDF
On November 15, 2005, the Liberal government introduced Bill C-74, the Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act (MITA), “an act to compel all telephone and Internet companies to create and maintain infrastructures that are intercept capable and to provide access to basic subscriber contact information such as a name, address or telephone number.”
In light of the series of consultations held previous to the introduction of this bill, the main purpose of C-74 was to require that telecommunications service providers (TSPs) build into their new systems “intercept capability” in order to allow law enforcement agencies to better intercept communications. The bill also gave a number of exemptions. For example, TSPs providing services for under 100 000 individuals would have benefited from a three year grace period. Also, there were complete and partial exemptions for charities, educational institutions, libraries, community centres, restaurants, and apartments.
Despite opposition from a number of civil society and privacy groups, bill C-74 also required that TSPs respond to warrantless demands by designated law enforcement officials for subscriber data. To meet the critics’ concerns in regards of this proposal, the bill also included a number of new safeguards. In particular:
• All requests for subscriber data must be in writing;
• Requests for subscriber data must be accompanied by at least one individual identifier (e.g., IP address), so as to prevent large-scale “fishing expeditions” no more than 5% of employees of a law enforcement agency (LEA) can be “designated officials” for purposes of requesting subscriber data (but police can get access where they can meet requirements of urgency, necessity and relevance);
• All requests must be related to a duty or function of the LEA; requesters must create a record of the request, identifying the duty/function for which request made, and explaining the relevance of the data gathered to that duty/function;
• Subscriber data gathered can be used only for the purpose for which it was collected or for a consistent purpose;
• LEAs must conduct "regular" internal audits of subscriber data requests and record-keeping;
• LEAs must report to their Minister anything arising out of such audits that they think should be brought to the Minister's attention; and such reports must be copied on the Privacy Commissioner (in the case of the RCMP or Competition Commissioner), the Security Information Review Commission (SIRC) (in the case of CSIS), or the provincial agency in charge of privacy protection (in the case of provincial police forces) the federal Privacy Commissioner can audit the RCMP or Competition Commissioner on reasonable notice, and SIRC can audit CSIS, for the purpose of assessing compliance with this legislation.
Although the bill contained a large number of the previously introduced propositions, it did not include provisions regarding production orders, preservation orders, or other proposed amendments to the Criminal Code discussed in the consultation document. The bill died with the 38th Parliament during the 2006 Elections.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?pub=bill&doc=C-74&parl=38&ses=1&language=E
In March of 2005, Justice Canada secretly issued a series of PowerPoint presentations to a select group of stakeholders. The presentation covered similar issues than those mentioned in the 2002 consultation document while adding certain technical details and statistics. For example, it discussed the prohibition of computer programs design for hacking. Also, the presentation discusses new production orders for tracking information and for transmission data. The government argues that the correct judicial threshold for such production orders would be one of “reasonable grounds to suspect”, thus lower than the conventional “reasonable grounds to believe”. Justice Canada proposed the creation of tracking and transmission data recorder warrants to be added to the Criminal Code. Also, more details were introduced in the proposals concerning preservation orders. For example, Justice Canada specified that a warrantless preservation order would last a maximum of 15 days, but an order could be obtained for 90 days on reasonable grounds to suspect. - Justice Canada introductory presentation: http://www.cippic.ca/uploads/JC_IntroPres_1.pdf - Justice Canada presentation on proposed Criminal Code amendments: http://www.cippic.ca/uploads/JC_CCAmend_2.pdf - Justice Canada presentation on email issues: http://www.cippic.ca/uploads/JC_Email_3.pdf - Justice Canada presentation on transmission data: http://www.cippic.ca/uploads/JC_TransData_4.pdf - PSEPC presentation on proposals for mandatory intercept capability and access to subscriber data: http://www.cippic.ca/uploads/PSEPC_data_5.pdf - Competition Bureau presentation on proposed Competition Act amendments: http://www.cippic.ca/uploads/CB_CompActAmend_6.pdf
The consultation process, which began in August 2002 until December 16, 2002 (extending the initial closing date for submission of November 15, 2002) included a series of over 20 meeting between the government and key stakeholders. Participants to the process included law enforcement agencies, industry associations and companies, privacy and civil liberties organizations, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, provincial governments and the general public. The responses varied greatly between different groups, law enforcement agencies being mostly supportive of lawful access legislation, while industries and civil organizations expressed certain criticisms against the proposals.
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cons/la-al/sum-res/index.html
In August 2002, Canada’s Department of Justice, in collaboration with Industry Canada, issued a 21 pages consultation document proposing a new legislative framework to deal with the growing threat of cybercrime. In the document, the Department of Justice starts by briefly defining “lawful access” and its necessity in the enforcement of Canadian laws in regards to new technologies. It follows by asserting that the rapid evolution of new technologies calls for the creation of a new legal framework that would promote partnerships between national security agencies and the Canadian industry. Citing the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime, the document states that the general objective of the Canadian Government is to implement the same type of measures in our legal system in balance with the rights, privacy, safety, security and economic well being of all Canadians and to continue to respect the Charter. The legislative proposals put forward in this document by the Canadian Government aimed chiefly at three broader issues: infrastructure capability, amendments to the Criminal Code and other statutes, and other mechanisms to provide subscriber and service provider information. Firstly, the Government argued that the legislative mechanism in place at the time could not compel telecommunication service providers to develop or maintain a system capable of intercepting a specific telecommunication transmitted over their facilities. The document also provided that a forbearance mechanism could be created in order to create legislation that would be more flexible and could adapt to special situations. Furthermore, it states that service providers should bear the cost of ensuring intercept capability when new technologies or services are introduced, when their systems or networks would need a significant upgrade to provide lawful access capabilities, but not for necessary changes to their existing systems or networks. Secondly, the document proposed a series of amendments to the Criminal Code and other statutes dealing with new technologies and telecommunication in order to ratify the Convention on Cybercrime. The most notable measure proposed was the creation of production orders specific to the Criminal Code. As described in the document, production orders require the “custodian of documents to deliver or make available the documents to persons such as law enforcement officials within a specified period.” Three types of production orders were proposed: a general production order, a specific production order for traffic data, and a specific production order for subscriber and/or service provider information. The general production order would require “custodian to deliver or make available the documents to law enforcement officials within a certain period of time.” The document states that in allowing the third parties, in this case service providers, deliver themselves the information to law enforcement agencies, production orders would be less intrusive than search warrants in similar circumstances “as there would be no entry into and search by law enforcement agencies of the premises of the third party.” The specific production orders, for their part, would require a lower standard than the conventional “reasonable ground to believe” that an offence has been or will be committed. The government argued that the content of telecommunication associated data did not generate a high expectation of privacy, as would a private conversation, but “should be more in line with that required for telephone records and dial number recorders in light of the lower expectation of privacy in a telephone number or Internet address.” The specific production order for subscriber and/or service provider information would aim the production of data regarding basic customer information such as name, billing address, phone number and name of service provider without judicial authorization. The government states in the document that similar warrantless access to information held by a business was deemed acceptable by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Plant because “a person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal information that does not tend to reveal intimate details of his or her lifestyle and personal choices.” The document also proposed new assistance orders and preservation orders. It also treated the issue of email interception, asking if email communication is a form of private communication entitle to a reasonable expectation of privacy or not, and if monitoring emails was a form of interception of search and seizure. Finally, the government proposed to create a database of local service provider identification accessible to law enforcement agencies without warrants.
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cons/la-al/consult.html
The Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime is the first international treaty to deal with cybercrime. Canada acted as an observer State in the drafting of the treaty and was also one of the non-European signatory States, along with countries like Japan and the United States. Unlike many of the signatory countries, including the United States, Canada has never ratified the treaty.
Explanatory Report: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Reports/Html/185.htm
Treaty:
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/185.htm
The United Kingdom passed the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) allowing a Cabinet Minister, in practice the U.K. Secretary of State, to impose obligations upon providers of publicly available communication services to maintain a reasonable intercept capability.
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=1757378
In February 1998, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench held, in R. v. Weir, 1998 ABQB 56, that a telecommunication service provider could lawfully act as an "agent of the state" in helping law enforcement agencies to collect information about a suspected criminal. The Alberta Court of Appeal upheld the decision in 1999 (see R. v. Weir, 1999 ABCA 275). - Alberta Court of Queen's Bench decision: http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/1998/1998abqb56/1998abqb56.html - Alberta Court of Appeal decision: http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abca/doc/1999/1999abca275/1999abca275.html
Australia passed the Telecommunications Act 1997 requiring carriers and carriage service providers (telecommunications service providers) to comply with obligations concerning interception capability and special assistance capability.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta1997214/
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) passed its first resolution focusing on lawful access urging the Government to enact legislation to ensure that telecommunications service providers have capabilities in place for police services to carry out interceptions pursuant to a court authorization. The CACP again passed resolutions in 2001, 2003 and 2004 urging the Government to enact this legislation.
The United States passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to preserve the ability of U.S. law enforcement to conduct electronic surveillance in the face of rapid advances in telecommunications technology.
CALEA was passed into law on October 25, 1994 and came into force on January 1, 1995.
http://www.askcalea.net/docs/calea.pdf
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