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The judge has also: Ordered details on any other subjects caught in the illegal surveillance, allowed for Dotcom and his co-accused to sue the New Zealand police and spy agency for damages and allowed for those damages to include a copy of all data seized during the raid

(Echelon is an intelligence network of five countries: New Zealand, The United States, Australia, Canada and Britain)

Current politics in New Zealand are unlikely to see this a terror or hacking issue. This is the agency responsible for the jobless, and they are a very low priority mainly used for political diversion.

Keeping in mind governments can screw up this badly.. the security errors some startup's launch with don't seem so bad.

Working out the licensing for this is quite the challenge.

It uses a duel licensing (AGPLv3 / Commercial) setup. How AGPLv3 applies to web applications is a significant grey area, and could imply an expectation that all javascript code of the application needs be AGPL also.

Answers in the forum are vague and no clear indication has been given to when a commercial license is is not required.

TL;DR: Want to use this in a web app? Pay for a commercial license or consult a lawyer

As opposed to removing the hard drive and reading the data directly...

It wasn't done in the same bills related to Christchurch. Rather, during the 'overtime' to deal with the aftermath of the Christchurch quake, this bill was promoted quickly also.

Doing this speeds up the process and avoids a huge amount of oversight, consideration and public input, and has very much caught the NZ public by surprise.

It's unlikely we (NZ public) will get organised enough to change this, and past laws with significant public outcry (which this doesn't have yet) have stayed without review, as referendum's are not binding in NZ.