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Apparantly the unbreakable encryption can be broken if Hushmail willingly hand over the key to the authorities:

 … it seems the Canadian company has been divulging keys to the American authorities.

The document describes the tracking of an anabolic steroid manufacturer who was being investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The document alleges that the majority of those engaged in the trade in anabolic steroids use Hushmail to communicate.

The DEA agents received three CDs of decrypted emails which contained decrypted emails for the targets of the investigation that had been decrypted as part of a mutual legal assistance treaty between the United States and Canada.

Yep, there is now a Google Australia Blog. Looks to me that it’s a combo of:

1) Re-worded (to mention Australia) promotions of Google products actually available worldwide

2) Australian news stories not really related to Google, but slipping the word Google in there…

Obviously stories like the ACCC’s action against Google will be blogged about, but that’s more your “once-a-year” type of story.

I can’t see the point of it, but hey, I’ve gone and linked to it!

For a while it looked like it would be against the law to upload some tracks (from a CD, that you paid for) onto your MP3 player. Or a TV show onto your iPod, etc… On-the-spot fines of $1320 have also been dropped, and common sense has prevailed.

It’s such a shame that politicians can such things so incredibly wrong, things that any of their neighbours could tell them was whack, and yet it takes lots of public outcry and debate just to get things to where they should’ve been to start with.