Round here, ASIO is the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation. Kind of like the CIA only...smaller, with less money, power, people and things to do/protect. Call it the poor mans CIA.
Given the Echelon project (the global communications monitoring partnership b/w the US, UK Australia and a couple of others (NZ? that monitors email, websites, mobile communications etc.)), this post has probably been picked up and stored.
Just to make it more interesting for the people who decipher possible terrorist activity on the net, I'll throw in some other keywords to make this post get flagged a higher priority:
bomb
assasination
president
nuclear
July 4
target
That was fun.
- gaffa
PS. To answer your question properly, have a look at
http://www.whatis.com/asio.htm
Should explain it all
Or you could go to
www.asio.gov.au for the "real" ASIO - actually, don't go there- there server doesn't exist (but it did - spooky - google has a cached version)
[This message has been edited by gaffa (edited 05-10-2000).]