[AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

[trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Chad Kelly wrote:

> On 9/3/2018 12:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
> 
> > The government is going to be able to enforce the Assistance and Access
> > Bill, because to operate a business in Australia, requires a local
> > presence. Your trade marks and intellectual property need recognition, and
> > you require a registered company to conduct business and to hold bank
> > accounts. If you won't comply with assistance/capability notices, you won't
> > be able to conduct business in Australia.
> Yeah I'm not sure I particularly like how dam vague the wording of the 
> bill is though.
> We are heading more in the direction of places like Singapore and China 
> with these bills and that isn't great for the industry.
> Not sure we will be able to do much though as its a bit of a dammed if 
> you do, dammed if you don't type situation, because on the one hand you 
> don't want to be hosting abusive material on your networks / servers, 
> but on the other hand, someone could impersonate a police officer and 
> gain the equipment, Datacentres   are going to have to spend more time 
> validating ID's and conducting manual checks which only means that 
> prices will only increase as having extra security staff costs money.
> As you don't want just anyone turning up with fake identities and 
> grabbing hardware and having legit businesses shut down in the process 
> particularly if its a shared hosting server.
> With this new bill, something like the following could easily happen 
> hear in Au http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1716143 its a 
> bit of a worry.

And all the five eyes are saying they want this now:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/five-eyes-nations-to-force-encryption-backdoors-511865

Telegram remains outside US control, not sure about Signal but they and 
Facebook would resist any attempt to break e2e encryption (Facebook 
already is https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/dont-shoot-messenger )

As for a good use of these technologies, let me refer you to this tweet: 
https://twitter.com/RealHughJackman/status/1036215115442540550

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