<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Submission from<font size="2"> BSA | The Software Alliance (</font><font size="2">BSA</font><font size="2">), <br></font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.bsa.org/~/media/Files/Policy/Data/09102018BSACommentsAssistanceandAccessBill2018.pdf">https://www.bsa.org/~/media/Files/Policy/Data/09102018BSACommentsAssistanceandAccessBill2018.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:sans-serif">  <font size="2">BSA’s members include: Adobe, Amazon Web Services, ANSYS, Apple, Autodesk, AVEVA, Baseplan Software, Bentley Systems,  Box, CA Technologies, Cad Pacific/Power Space, Cad Pacific, Cisco, CNC/Mastercam, DataStax,DocuSign, IBM, Informatica, Intel,  Mathworks, Microsoft, Okta, Oracle, PTC, Salesforce, SAS Institute, Siemens PLM Software, Splunk,  Symantec, TrendMicro, Trimble Solutions Corporation, and Workday. <br></font></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><p>Kind Regards <br>
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    <p>Paul Wilkins</p></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 08:53, Nick Stallman <<a href="mailto:nick@agentpoint.com">nick@agentpoint.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Governments have the power to pass any bill they want, and they
      can waive around any sovereign rights they want as well.<br>
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    <p>It doesn't mean the bills will match reality.<br>
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    <div class="m_-7017029081367375123moz-cite-prefix">On 13/09/18 15:13, Paul Wilkins wrote:<br>
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        <div>Mark,</div>
        <div>An enabler? I wish. The government is perfectly capable of
          passing the Assistance and Access Bill without my help. <br>
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        <div>There's a compelling argument that encryption doesn't
          negate the sovereign right of the Crown to conduct wiretap
          surveillance subject to judicial writ. I recognise the need to
          extend judicial writ to the cyber domain. So do plenty of
          other people, inside and outside of government, so it's
          happening, regardless of the objections of hardline privacy
          advocates.<br>
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        <div>I want this regime to be effective and implemented
          properly, with checks and balances consistent with a liberal
          democracy, and proportionate to the need for privacy. If I
          contribute to the process, it's to ensure a better outcome
          than had I stood idle and silent.</div>
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        <div>Kind regards</div>
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        <div>Paul Wilkins<br>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 12:58, Mark Smith <<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">markzzzsmith@gmail.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="auto">You realise you're being an enabler don't you?</div>
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            <div dir="ltr">On Thu., 13 Sep. 2018, 09:35 Paul Wilkins,
              <<a href="mailto:paulwilkins369@gmail.com" target="_blank">paulwilkins369@gmail.com</a>>
              wrote:<br>
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                  <div style="margin-left:40px">If there were an
                    equivalent to certificate transparency logs for our
                    data retention laws and for these proposed technical
                    assistance requests, you could be sure that they'd
                    be used much more responsibly and sparingly.<br>
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                  I like this idea, a lot.<br>
                  <br>
                  In my submission I raised the possibility of a single
                  agency acting as a clearing house for judicial writs,
                  and issuing per warrant SSL certificates to secure
                  warrant data as part of the process. The idea to have
                  them implement certificate transparency is excellent,
                  and I'd support any representation to government
                  urging them to resource such efforts. However, it's
                  going to be a struggle, given where, if you've
                  noticed, gov.au is not yet DNSSEC signed - which I
                  find deliciously ironic, the government issuing itself
                  new powers to protect our cyber security, while their
                  whole TLD flaps in the breeze...<br>
                  <br>
                  Kind regards<br>
                  <br>
                  Paul Wilkins<br>
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                <div dir="ltr">On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 21:52, Paul Gear
                  <<a href="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ausnog@libertysys.com.au</a>>
                  wrote:<br>
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                  12/09/18 17:04, Mark Newton wrote:<br>
                  > ...<br>
                  > There is no democratic brake on the advancement
                  of the intelligence<br>
                  > community’s powers, they continue to do whatever
                  the hell they want,<br>
                  > with no recourse.<br>
                  > ...<br>
                  <br>
                  ^ This.  Those in power continue to wield it in ways
                  which benefit<br>
                  themselves rather than all of us.  I'm not sure what
                  the entire solution<br>
                  is, but part of it surely must include being open to
                  scrutiny by the<br>
                  general public.  If there were an equivalent to
                  certificate transparency<br>
                  logs for our data retention laws and for these
                  proposed technical<br>
                  assistance requests, you could be sure that they'd be
                  used much more<br>
                  responsibly and sparingly.<br>
                  <br>
                  I would also add that nor is there a brake on the
                  advancement of Silicon<br>
                  Valley's powers.  Imagine if the same public (or
                  near-public) scrutiny<br>
                  were available for the decisions that large Internet,
                  financial, and<br>
                  advertising firms make about us...<br>
                  <br>
                  Paul<br>
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