[AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

[Paul Wilkins]

Possible scenario:

3:00am Sunday morning, phone rings at the DC reception, is picked up by
security. "Hi, we've never met. This is Paul Symon of ASIS. I'm sending
some uniformed AFP officers over to sieze a number of servers. This call
constitutes a verbal technical assistance notice, and non compliance
carries a penalty of 5 years imprisonment".


A plain van turns up with people in AFP uniforms.  Security google up ASIS
and the caller ID matches, so they figure they better let them in. They
take a number of high profile ecommerce servers. You never hear from them
again.

Monday morning, customers are asking why they're offline. Security tell you
there was a search and siezure. You contact ASIS who know nothing about it.

Actually possible.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins



On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 08:09, Christian Heinrich <
christian.heinrich at cmlh.id.au> wrote:

> https://twitter.com/AustCyber/status/1029826401069744128 is also of
> interest as this conflicts with
> https://twitter.com/stilgherrian/status/854816159140413441 and is
> further supported by:
>
>    1. Mike of https://www.austcyber.com/about-us/our-board/ has
> returned to https://asd.gov.au/about/leadership.htm
>
>    2. The proposed legislation to assist with investigations such as
>
> https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/are-encrypted-phones-allowing-criminals-to-get-away-with-murder-20150523-gh82gv.html
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christian Heinrich
>
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