[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Phillip Grasso]

Back to something that might resemble a technical discussion. It comes down
to the scale they want to operate, I'd continue to argue it's an economic
scale cost. If they want to monitor people massively and probably not just
about the terrorhusts but general public, they do the B's stuff like
metadata collection etc, but if they had a targeted set of people they
wanted to watch, they could and they have the mechanisms today, they
probably way more than enough. Cracking encryption continues to be a
function of computing power, time, crypto research/backdoors. (E.g. spy
agencies probably knew of limited primes and other deficiencies with each
crypto, thereby significantly reducing keyspace and reducing computational
complexity / time. This however would be too complex for your regular
politician to understand, or care about.



On Jun 18, 2017 11:13 AM, "Peter Tiggerdine" <ptiggerdine at gmail.com> wrote:

doesn't the election process fall under the checks and balance of
absolute power corrupts absolute?
Regards,

Peter Tiggerdine

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On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 18 June 2017 at 08:36, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> --- newton at atdot.dotat.org wrote:
>> From: Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>
>>
>> Assuming bad faith is a key and essential part of
>> democracy: Give people powerful jobs, but never,
>> ever trust them to do them well.
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Pffft!  I'm going to plagiarize that.  I hope you
>> don't mind! :)
>>
>> scott
>>
>>
>> ps.  This is a troll, right?  You can't actually
>> believe that!  Right???
>
>
> If we trusted them to do a good job, we wouldn't go through the election
> process every few years...
>
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