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There is a clear need for an opposite law which will make backdoors illegal. Who could fight for it?

abvdasker 6y ago
Very few elected politicians of either party.
t-writescode 6y ago
It's really easy. You just have to say that the backdoors are a method to stop [very big bad] from happening and that without it, you're supporting [very big bad]. The thing we have to come as a society is willing to accept that sometimes [very big bad] will happen, but a lack of back doors is more important.
- triceratops 6y ago
  Backdoors are a method to allow predators to spy on children online. If you support backdoors, you're supporting predation on children.
mikeyjk 6y ago
Sadly Australia did the opposite - they can force us to backdoor applications and punish us for refusing. Australia is not the place to look for security applications.
- raxxorrax 6y ago
  Ah, the old penal colony mindset where the citizens are secretly prisoners.
  - classified 6y ago
    Except it’s not a secret any more.
  - Rebelgecko 6y ago
    When asked about how the law would ban certain mathematical operations, IIRC the Australian PM said something along the lines of "The laws of mathematics should be subservient to the laws of Australia"
    - AnimalMuppet 6y ago
      Yeah, good luck with that. Let us know how it works out for you, Australia.
- BLKNSLVR 6y ago
  As an Australian, my plan is to route most of my traffic through a self hosted VPN on a server that resides outside the five eyes (and possibly also the extended thirteen eyes). Yes, there are insecurities and holes in the above, pending the methods of implementation, but it's one level of potentially many. And whilst it's good to know that there are technical workarounds such as this, the real work, the real progress for society, is to make these technical workarounds unnecessary by, as the EFF says, contacting your representatives and letting them know what they're constituency thinks. Politics, sickeningly, is the only avenue for worthwhile change.

Very few elected politicians of either party.

It's really easy. You just have to say that the backdoors are a method to stop [very big bad] from happening and that without it, you're supporting [very big bad]. The thing we have to come as a society is willing to accept that sometimes [very big bad] will happen, but a lack of back doors is more important.

triceratops 6y ago
Backdoors are a method to allow predators to spy on children online. If you support backdoors, you're supporting predation on children.

mikeyjk 6y ago

Sadly Australia did the opposite - they can force us to backdoor applications and punish us for refusing. Australia is not the place to look for security applications.

raxxorrax 6y ago
Ah, the old penal colony mindset where the citizens are secretly prisoners.
- classified 6y ago
  Except it’s not a secret any more.
- Rebelgecko 6y ago
  When asked about how the law would ban certain mathematical operations, IIRC the Australian PM said something along the lines of "The laws of mathematics should be subservient to the laws of Australia"
  - AnimalMuppet 6y ago
    Yeah, good luck with that. Let us know how it works out for you, Australia.
BLKNSLVR 6y ago
As an Australian, my plan is to route most of my traffic through a self hosted VPN on a server that resides outside the five eyes (and possibly also the extended thirteen eyes). Yes, there are insecurities and holes in the above, pending the methods of implementation, but it's one level of potentially many. And whilst it's good to know that there are technical workarounds such as this, the real work, the real progress for society, is to make these technical workarounds unnecessary by, as the EFF says, contacting your representatives and letting them know what they're constituency thinks. Politics, sickeningly, is the only avenue for worthwhile change.