[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Phillip Grasso]

"The privacy of a terrorist can never be more important than public safety.
Never."

Is it a question of privacy or cost? The means exist to decrypt, its just
more expensive.

On 13 June 2017 at 00:16, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> 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."
>>
>>
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