[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Mark Newton]

Brandis: "Trust me, we only want the envelope, not the content."

<David Speers interviews him to see what that actually means, everybody 
laughs>

Brandis: "Actually, we want the content too."

<silence>


   - mark


On 06/13/2017 04:16 PM, James Andrewartha wrote:
> https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2017-06-13/national-security-statement
>
> Also includes the usual BS about breaking encryption in the name of
> national security, aka the war on maths.
>
> "However encrypted messaging applications are also used by criminals and
> terrorists - at the moment much of this traffic is difficult for our
> security agencies to decrypt, and indeed for our Five Eyes partners as
> well.
>
> Most of the major platforms of this kind are based in the United States
> where a strong libertarian tradition resists Government access to private
> communications as the FBI found when Apple would not help unlock the
> iPhone of the dead San Bernardino terrorist.
>
> The privacy of a terrorist can never be more important than public safety.
> Never."
>