[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Robert Hudson]

On 13 June 2017 at 21:48, Nick Gale <nickgale at gmail.com> wrote:

> The right to privacy is less of an issue than with the breaking of things
> that ought not be broken. All it will take is one bank to go down because
> their escrow keys were acquired by another sovereign state and you have the
> country in lots of trouble. Attacks on a key escrow the government holds
> for all keys won't be by some kid in the basement. It will be by other
> countries.
>
> The so called "bad guys" will just build infrastructure that doesn't
> adhere to such regulations. Even now its not hard to do. Whats to stop
> people building their own CA's to encrypt their comms? You think that if
> someone does they are going to give the keys to the govt?
>
> Sure they can't use facebook or twitter or other public services but they
> sure as hell can plan whatever it is they want to without having anyone
> eve's drop on them. Essentially the only people this sort of thing impacts
> is the average joe.
>

Aside from issues of privacy, this nails the point of "will it actually
work worth a damn?".

And the answer is no.  Stupidity is stupidity, whether it's done in the
name of national security or otherwise.
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