Data retention is what GCHQ has been doing for years regardless of laws. Dutton is an ultra conservative border protector type, don’t expect all his proposals

Data retention is what GCHQ has been doing for years regardless of laws. Dutton is an ultra conservative border protector type, don’t expect all his proposals to pass. How many DEFCons and CCC conferences do you have to go to before you hear a rubber hose cryptography joke? Dan Greer’s realpolitik talk in 2015 mentions that cyber security is all aggression little defence. If it were a soccer game it would be 421-420 at the 20minute mark. The best of the best in the US struggle with this stuff behind closed doors, seeing Australia take the flak in public is fine, but don’t pretend US and UK are innocent. These proposals are not the leading edge of privacy invasion.