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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: 2) by frojack on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:11AM
Distributed does not mean everybody self-serves from their own machine.
Consider Skype, before Ebay bought them (With NSA Money**). It was a pretty good distributed model, with a mix of skype's own servers distributed around the world, and volunteers who had direct connections and could run a node simply by opening a port or two. I did that for a few years. Never had any blocking by my cable company. I could always see the packet load in the network card stats.
Then Microsoft bought it from Ebay, (again with NSA money **) and immediately routed all call setup through their servers, (un interesting calls are then handed off to microsoft datacenters around the world, unless some government wants to listen. (Its still a distributed network, sort of).
The problem is not the the asymmetric nature of the home connection. The problem is that the various services (other than Jabber) were too busy competing to think about federating,
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.