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What is the corporate interest that you think is served by mandating encryption backdoors?

• dwd 8y ago
  More access to US markets would be my first guess. The USGov want's this and would be offering some incentive. The government then use that as a selling point or threat of missed opportunity to keep MPs in line - not that you'll ever get someone crossing the floor. I assume the idea is to either "share" the data to a five-eyes partner or let them collect it and use their jurisdiction to compel it's decryption (including by US firms). There's also a lot of politics and point scoring going on, and a trade deal is always good coming into the next election.
  • aetherson 8y ago
    The US government may well be lobbying for this, but if so, I don't that they're doing it by going to Australian corporations and saying, "Hey, you lobby for this and if you do we'll give your something special." If for no reason other than that it's likely it would get out. What I'm saying here is that "corporate lobbying" is a bugaboo for many people. There are plenty of bad ideas that stem from sources other than corporate lobbying.
    • dwd 8y ago
      The lobbying path for this would be US security (NSA/CIA/FBI) lobbying to both USGov and their AU counterparts ASIO/FedPolice who in turn lobby the AusGov. They in turn talk to USGov and work on what they get and the selling points. From the politicing it was the old "you're going to put people's safety at risk" if we don't do this message. So, no idea what AU gets out of it unless there a deal that makes some other issue go away for the Gov like taking some of our refugees, etc. Corps get no say unless they need a sweetener to keep giving politicians money or favourable media via various industry bodies and groups.
• Joakal 8y ago
  The ol' five eyes conspiracy; to help big companies by collecting sensitive information on SME businesses.