Remember the Clipper Chip? Protecting our right to Encrypt

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As always, Mr Schneier is spot on. We might ‘need’ these laws because ‘paedophiles’ and ‘terrorists’ - but what about when every other country on Earth looks at Australia’s lead? China, Russia, Saudi Arabia… Australia has set an incredibly poor example that if left uncorrected will lead to a less secure world.

And for anyone who’s interested, he has a great blog - and a post in it about the ridiculous censorship of the Cybercon. But wait… that’s not all the attempted censorship of Cybercon!

Melbourne cyber conference organisers pressured speaker to edit 'biased' talk

It’s like these people have never heard of the Streisand Effect!

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https://www.innovationaus.com/2019/11/Labor-demands-an-encryption-fix-now

When agreeing to pass the bill, the Opposition said it had secured an agreement from the government, through Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, that further amendments would be considered to the bill to meet the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS).

But these amendments never appeared, and the Assistance and Access Bill has remained unchanged since it was passed.

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these amendments never appeared

I think most of us realised that they wouldn’t - the only surprise is that Labor is making any noise at all about it.

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No surprise at all they didn’t get amendments. Agreeing to something that wasn’t safe to begin with showed a total lack of foresight on the ALP’s part. If they didn’t agree then they could have stopped the Bill, and what they got wasn’t even about changing the Law it was an agreement to look at amendments. Looking and doing are two different things. The LNP do have inquiries running so they are looking at it as they agreed to.