[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Matt Palmer]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 02:28:19PM +1000, Mark Newton wrote:
> 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.

Why do you think a solution has to work in order for it to become law?

At any rate, I'm not proposing it as a *good* solution, I'm observing that
it is the way things are already going in certain places -- ones that
Alastair McGibbon has said have a good model that Australia should look
into.

The other option is that the government continue to fail to "fix" the
encryption problem, and keep using it as a lever to force all sorts of other
problematic practices into law, under the guise of "stopping terruhrists". 
Remember: if a politician actually fixes a problem, they lose it as a
campaign platform.  If they make it worse with their ham-fisted attempts,
they're set for life.

- Matt

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