[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

Robert Hudson hudrob at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 19:11:25 EST 2017


It is expensive in many ways - to achieve near-real time interception and
decryption (in-flight or at-rest) basically requires the keys. Elsewise it
can't be achieved in a suitably short time.

On 13 Jun. 2017 5:34 pm, "Phillip Grasso" <phillip.grasso at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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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