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To be fair, I think this is most countries, they just don't have as much political power as the US. The UK's Online Safety Act is a good example. My country (A
by hekkle 11mo ago
To be fair, I think this is most countries, they just don't have as much political power as the US. The UK's Online Safety Act is a good example.
My country (Australia) tried to legislate in 2016 that no one is allowed to use encryption, and if they were required to, for other obvious reasons like for medical data, then they were required to code in a back-door for law enforcement.
- BLKNSLVR 11mo agoPrime Minister (at the time) Malcolm Turnbull announcing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i326eNOa6Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i326eNOa6Us The above is just the announcement and doesn't include answering media questions wherein we would have heard dear Malcolm's famous quote: “Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia" Very quiet audio of the last half of the above quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB3uQHa14g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB3uQHa14g Political understanding of mathematics and encryption has not progressed in the intervening 9 years, much the same as the thirty years prior. Regulating internet security is forming a similarly unfortunate trajectory.