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>there exist straightforward workarounds Exactly and that’s why this a problem. This law will never catch anyone that actually is troubling for NZ because anyon
by klohto 8y ago
>there exist straightforward workarounds
Exactly and that’s why this a problem. This law will never catch anyone that actually is troubling for NZ because anyone who is shady, already uses some workaround.
Now it will only bother and waste time of people who are serious about their privacy to apply this workaround as well.
- bernardlunn 8y agoNail on head! This does not increase real security and it is a real privacy violation. Dumb lose lose authoritarianism. Disappointed that smart Kiwis do something so dumb
- jl6 8y agoWhile I don’t agree with this law, it’s not dumb. Security is about defence in depth. A determined attacker might have a way around this law, but perhaps not every criminal would know about this method, or think to use it. It’s easy to scoff at blunt-tool laws because you can think of a way to undermine them. But law and society are built on a patchwork of imperfect systems which can individually be broken, undermined, manipulated or worked around. In aggregate, they do achieve some semblance of a result, because they are layered together - even if each one alone provides only a marginal element of security.
- komali2 8y agoThis will probably be another tool to catch unaware (and generally desperate and uneducated) drug mules. The ones some gang managed to convince to swallow a couple hundred baggies of cocaine. I guess that helps the country's well being but hardly a violent target.