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Old 20-06-2017, 08:22 PM   #1
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Default Aus and UK gov want to break your encryption to spy on you.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/w...th-encryption/

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The Australian government wants the ability to read messages kept secret by encryption in the name of aiding criminal investigations. But just how it proposes to do this is unclear.
As Australian Attorney-General George Brandis recently told Fairfax:
At one point or more of that process, access to the encrypted communication is essential for intelligence and law enforcement.
In an interview with Sky News, he spoke favourably of controversial UK legal powers that seek to impose on device makers and social media companies “a greater obligation to work with authorities where a notice is given to them to assist in ‘breaking’ a communication”.
Brandis has insisted the government doesn’t want a “backdoor” in secure messaging apps. How, then, he expects companies to “break” them is unclear.
As many have pointed out, it’s hard to see any tool that gives law enforcement privileged access to otherwise encrypted messages as anything else but a “backdoor”.
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Default Re: Aus and UK gov want to break your encryption to spy on you.

They don't want to, they already can.
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Default Re: Aus and UK gov want to break your encryption to spy on you.

... And Social Media was invented so the masses would happily and voluntarily disclose personal information about themselves.

Hint: Close your Facebook account.
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