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Nail on head! This does not increase real security and it is a real privacy violation. Dumb lose lose authoritarianism. Disappointed that smart Kiwis do somethi

• jl6 8y ago
  While 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 ago
    This 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.