[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Mark Newton]

On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Andrew McN wrote:
>
> On 15/06/17 10:06, Matt Palmer wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:48:38PM +1000, Andrew McN wrote:
>>> I doubt they'd bother trying to breaking encryption.  It seems more
>>> likely that their plan is to force players like Google or IOS to push
>>> malware out to people's phones to circumvent the encryption.
>> Even easier plan: just make failing to supply decryption keys an offense
>> punishable by more time than the offense they'll get you for otherwise.
> That alerts the person being spied on.
>

Also doesn't work when the key they want is generated by a device, not a 
person; and the person never knows what it is.

Don't offer up solutions unless and until you've thought through the 
problem-space, otherwise you're just wasting everybody's time.

(he says, to George Brandis)

   - mark