Re: Yet again the Tories come along with this bullshit.
https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryption-law-is-a-threat-to-global-privacy/
If you defeat encryption at the decryption points (key holders and applications) - you've still neutralized and neutered it's purpose.
It's actually worse over here than "just" attacking mere encryption. Our legislation has already *made it legal* for the government to:
Compromise Australian software via the developer, without informing anybody else, under threat of national security.
If you use Australian software: there's no reasonable expectation that it's not compromised either at the software level, the data and systems or the human level or all these. If fact, it's most unreasonable to expect anything is secure at all. This legislation tarnishes an entire nation's industry - proving how backwards this place is.
We are not allowed to speak of it when compelled else we face national security hammers.
We are compelled to introduce back-door's, intentionally weaken (compromise) security, hand over keys, create god keys for bad actors (the government or anyone else) and anything requested all to basically compromise encryption - without actually breaking it. They've just gone a layer lower to layer 0 and -1 layer on the OSI model: the systems & the humans.
What the government says is:
If a developer says get fucked I won't compromise my company's security, they are a terrorist.
If a developer informs the boss, hey I told <malicious government agent> to get fucked as I won't compromise my company's security, they are a terrorist.
If a developer informs a colleague, they are a terrorist.
If a developer informs a colleague, hey I told <malicious government agent> to get fucked as I won't compromise my company's security, they are a terrorist.
Not only have they done this, they've made it legal for themselves to literally make up shit against you & call it evidence! The legislation forbids that very fabrication from being disclosed! Juries and justices are blind to it - so you can and will get thrown in jail indefinitely (as a terr'ist|kiddie fiddler|whatever they want) on 100% fabrications by the government apparatus leveled right at an individual.
If you are not a celebrity or a rich person, good luck getting an iota of a defense. And even if your legal team actually tries, the "evidence" is apparently damning.
The absurdity and abhorrence of this legislation is mind boggling. How are all our nations being dragged to such a draconian society unfettered. Something needs to change.
Not just an attack on encryption, but what it's end goal is: privacy/some attempt at security. This country clearly proves it by going hellfire after whistleblower and journalists reporting the facts but of course not the war criminals, who they proudly support.
Our government absolutely does not think people deserve a right to privacy or anything secret. Their actions clearly betray their intents.
Even though they know they will lose and the public outraged, they hang their teeth on, motivating the entire bureaucracy of government against these individuals, treating them as enemies of the state.
Especially those that are "political" journalists, by political they mean: anything the government doesn't like.
If your report truth or facts and the government is even mentioned, pretty much you are fucked in this country. They will attack you and hound you and isolate you, drain you of all finances, family, friends - even if you eventually are vindicated and win by a miracle - they make damn sure you still actually lost everything.
I do encourage you to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIweDcHjDrM
Our government will call a a voted in and concerned politician, a leader of his party; a traitor! Verbatim, in parliament, Dutton went on to call him: "An enemy of the state" - for giving that speech. A man simply wanting to not have a truly evil set of new laws passed into legislation.
The government does indeed see the public as the enemy. It's just so vicious and open now. They are brazen and proud of it thugs.
They might as well insist on forcing government cameras into our bedrooms, have agents come "document|check" how couples make love or put cameras in the underwear draws & toilets.
This is attitude by the people that run down the country, those that support pedophiles proudly, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBcjbjKDY8, these guys, telling us to be decent and if we have nothing to hide, nothing to fear!?