Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I want to thank the minister for making our point exactly. The point the minister made was that now that devices are proliferating in homes, they are also proliferating on networks and they are connected to each other. Networks are connected to networks. He has made the point exactly: without an upper limit, one warrant not only includes all the devices in someone's home—and as I said in my speech, if you think 50 is the right number let us make it 50—but the other networks they are connected to.

The minister has just confirmed that this new definition of computer, which is not only one or more computers but one or more computer systems, one or more computer networks or any combination of the above, now means anything that is connected to anything else—even something two, three or four steps removed. With so many devices in people's homes and workplaces nowadays, there is no upper limit. You could be targeted simply because your network happens to be connected to someone else's network, which happens to be connected to someone else's network. I thank the minister for clarifying that.

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