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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by samtheprogram on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:35PM (#28373991)
> tampering with evidence is not included and still forbidden

> What is allowed here, is hacking for the police. That necessarily can include changing files on the target computers (e.g. deleting logs)

How is this not tampering with evidence?

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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by hutzlibu on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:26AM (#28376945)
Not everything is evidence.

When there is an email on the computer that will be used as a proof - then why is this been tampered with, if just a system log was altered?

Courts are usually very strict to only allow "clean" evidence. Cases have been thrown totally over, because of a minor fuckup of police. It is all a question of how it is implemented and used. And sure, it is a very extreme thing and sadly the use case "only for serious crime" is in danger of soon to be applied to allmost anything.

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