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Cryptography is unknown to many and many fear the unknown.
by blackflame7000 7y ago
Cryptography is unknown to many and many fear the unknown.
- Silhouette 7y agoTrue. It certainly doesn't help that a lot of the elected representatives who are making these laws evidently lack even a basic understanding of the technical issues involved, so they are often guided by expert advice from those who entirely coincidentally are the main beneficiaries of the stronger powers being created.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoFrankly this story doesn't have any substantial to do with cryptography, rather it's about how the media in Australia just doesn't have much protection when anything labelled state secrets are involved. Stories about the raiding and seizing of journalists computers and other materials go back to 2000 at least, see links at end of https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/federal-police-raid-home-of-news-corp-journalist-annika-smethurst https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/feder...