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"Perhaps due to its antipodean isolation, the Australian government has made
incredible inroads in recent months with the intent of undermining the
encryption that protects millions of its citizens from criminals and the shady
people they’ve elected. That’s mostly gone now. The Australian government
(technically) hasn’t demanded encryption backdoors. Instead, it has demanded
the next best thing: on-demand access to content. If this demand results in a
backdoor, well, the government can hardly be blamed for the actions of
platforms and service providers. All the government did was demand access to
content. That it’s locked up and requires the use of a possibly-universal key
can’t be the government’s fault, right? Maybe these companies shouldn’t have
worked so hard to protect the information and communications of criminals while
providing the same protections to the 99.5% of non-criminals that make up their
user bases.
The Australian government has a bunch of new powers — ones the federal police
were immediately willing to take advantage of. On top of that, there are a raft
of new data retention demands being placed on all sorts of tech companies and
providers that require them to log user info they may never have logged or
retained in the past.
It’s bad. And here’s how things are working out for Australians now, as Chris
Duckett reports for ZDNet"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
