3 ms·
It was a throwaway joke comment - Turnbull is much smarter than that. Worth noting that Malcolm Turnbull made part of his money from investing in the internet
by SyneRyder 8y ago
It was a throwaway joke comment - Turnbull is much smarter than that.
Worth noting that Malcolm Turnbull made part of his money from investing in the internet sector in the early 90s. He invested $500,000 in OzEMail (one of Australia's first internet service providers) back in 1994, and sold his stake for $57 Million to Worldcom in 1999. He's not an engineer, but he's not entirely ignorant on these matters.
- shakna 8y agoHowever, it is representative of his backers. And the comment wasn't given in jest, but to reopen the backdoor debate. I'm not worried he doesn't understand, but the rest of the party?
- dbuder 8y agoYet he butchered the NBN and keeps passing laws to hurt internet commerce.
- rando444 8y agoHe might not be ignorant, but this whole request couldn't be more vague, and to an outsider makes no sense. I mean asking Facebook to reveal encrypted data? What even is that? The data is stored readable on both the device and presumably facebook's servers, and is only encrypted in-transit if a user enables that. Are they asking that the data not be secure in-transit? It's a nonsense request, until they clarify what exactly it is they want.