[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Paul Wilkins]

Thales nShield Connect provides FIPs 140-2 grade security to distributed
hosts. Keys are distributed using an encrypted remote file system.

So people advising government will be thinking of architectures where a
government escrow server is an additional client. Give it Moore's law,
technical advances, and the march of time, it's inevitable one day you'll
need a license to run crypto services.

And I find the assumption of bad faith from government bewildering. It's
been said democracy is a terrible system, it's just better than all other
systems of government. But you hardly have grounds to complain if you won't
engage in constructive public debate, which is how government policy
actually happens, regardless of what some might think.

</kevlar flame retardardant suit>

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 15 June 2017 at 17:44, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:

> I concur.
>
> Providing an alternative solution is only useful if there is actually a
> valid alternative.
>
> If there is not, you're best to just say it. If an idea is stupid, state
> not only that it is so, but state why. And don't sugar coat it either,
> sugar coating just gives wriggle room to someone trying to justify their
> own stupidity.
>
> Rip that bandaid off.
>
>
> On 15 Jun. 2017 5:14 pm, "grenville armitage" <garmitage at swin.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 06/15/2017 15:47, Mark Newton wrote:
>     [..]
>
> Whether we're talking about internet censorship, copyright takedowns, data
>> retention, or now this, these Australian (always Australian) technical
>> mailing lists are always full of people who say, "That's stupid, what they
>> *really* should do is..." followed by, "We're working positively with the
>> Government to make the best of a bad situation," after the inevitable loss.
>>
>     [..]
>
> You don't need to offer an alternative to a bad idea to communicate that
>> it's a bad idea.
>>
>
> (I've got nothing to add. I just want to see the words above repeated.)
>
> cheers,
> gja
>
>
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