While he was speaking to Richard Aedy, he was attacked again, suffering a 'distributed denial of service attack'. An website intruder or hacker might want to place graffiti, or monitor or modify data. Hacking is a modern form of industrial espionage. AusCERT helps people whose sites have been hit with technical diagnosis. It employs wide bandwidth, fat pipes, data being prioritsed and new routers.
Potential uses are in remote health care and training, and in film post production.
Initially it would be a private network. The US, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia operate an electonic surveillance system called echelon. 3 billion messages a day pass through dictionaries which match words of phrases. Tagged messages are then sent to specific countries for further analysis. Australia operates a ground station near Geraldton and monitors satellites.