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Aus Gov to pass laws forcing tech companies help police access encrypted msgs
- mmerlin 8y agoThis shows how clueless politicians are when it comes to technology. PGP and similar are widely available since the 90's. Mailvelope and many other OpenPGP tools exist. This idea is as clueless as Abbotts plan to kill the NBN fibre-to-the-home infrastructure. Except he succeeded :-/
- xfitm3 8y agoThis is atrocious. There are numerous articles suggesting that China could be influencing some of these policies. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-29/chinas-been-interfering-in-australian-politics-for-past-decade/9810236?pfmredir=sm https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-29/chinas-been-interf...
- techsin101 8y agoThis just lowered my opinion of Australian government to corrupted trash
- brokenmachine 8y agoYou were previously uninformed.
- bigbluedots 8y agoI guess it is supposed to go something like this: 1. Aus government attempts to use this law to compel Whatsapp to provide decryption or technical assistance for same 2. Whatsapp tells them to go away 3. Whatsapp is banned in Australia
- brokenmachine 8y agoIs there any judicial oversight or is it just a warrantless free-for-all?
- ericnyamu 8y agoSo they will break ssl ? Lol. Go luck
- mmerlin 8y agoFirst Dog explains it well in cartoon style. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/05/why-we-are-governed-by-idiots-and-you-should-be-worried https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/05/why-we...