>Criminals and terrorists can easily use end-to-end encryption for the communication. They use applications that take unencrypted plaintext, encrypt it, send i

>Criminals and terrorists can easily use end-to-end encryption for the communication. They use applications that take unencrypted plaintext, encrypt it, send it to the recipient's device, decrypt it, and show it as plaintext. The law is designed to give a staggering amount of authority to use commercial resources to compromise a specific device or installed application in order to read off the plain text before encryption or after decryption and send it to the Australian government. So the "bad guys" would be using what appears to be, say, Signal, except the developers got a notice to send you an app update that swaps out actually encrypting things with "send a copy to the feds and then encrypt things". Any company developing software or systems that ensures that you have installed what you think you have can be ordered to compromise their systems so that an Australian court order breaks the system. So if your copy of Windows is set up to reject push updates unless they've been signed by Microsoft, well, the Australians can order Microsoft to sign some binaries and push them to you.