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The bill will go into effect in November.
The Australian government is implementing laws that'll pressure tech giants like Facebook and Google to decrypt messages for terrorist and criminal investigators, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Friday, reports the ABC.
Investigators would ask for assistance from Apple, Facebook, Google and others in cases regarding terrorism, pedophile rings and drug trafficking.
"We've got a real problem in that the new law enforcement agencies are increasingly unable to find out what terrorists and drug traffickers and pedophile rings are up to because of the very high levels of encryption," Turnbull said to reporters.
"Where we can compel it, we will," he added, "but we will need the cooperation from the tech companies."
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday July 17 2017, @08:38PM (1 child)
The Australian government is effectively mandating that tech giants must design insecure systems.
It is either secure. Or it is not. (aka, insecure)
If it is secure, then the government nor the tech giant company can't read your private messages.
If the government, or the tech giant can read your private messages, then it is not secure.
Apple was arguing last year that they were designing their system so that even Apple couldn't read your phone contents.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday July 17 2017, @09:32PM
The companies looking to make cash with reduce effective security (secretly, to avoid backlash).
"Bad Guys" (terrorist, drug lord, pedophile, you) will just use widely available open source encryption tools.
I can easily write a script to encrypt stuff with an arbitrarily long key. Are they going to outlaw scripting languages and compilers, since they can't outlaw math? (see previous story about Australian law beating math)