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Australian Government Pursues "Golden Key" for Encryption

posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 18 2018, @08:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-my-kingdom dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The Australian Government believes that it needs a golden key to backdoor encryption within Australia via legislation. The Brits and the Yanks have both already had a nudge at this and both have conceded that requiring a backdoor to encryption is not viable but this will not stop the Australian Liberal Party from trying.

Digital rights experts have described the proposal as "ludicrous" as Cyber security minister Angus Taylor stating that the legislation would be presented for public comment within the next quarter. While the Australian Government has not detailed how it expects to gain access to encrypted data, companies may be penalized if they don't kowtow to the new laws. There is nothing to be discussed here that hasn't been said before other than the Australian Government sincerely believes it can force companies to divulge encrypted data to authorities on demand.

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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Monday June 18 2018, @10:33AM (2 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Monday June 18 2018, @10:33AM (#694472) Journal

    Politicians messing with 'cyber'.

    Why don't we just make everyone use a global encryption key for everything: "OfficialSecretWorldwideEncryptionBackdoorKey"?

    Problem solved.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @06:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @06:58PM (#694642)

    ROT-13 is super secure, right? Keep banging the rocks together until the coming of the Great Golden Kangaroo...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:46AM (#694892)

    If all those idiots did was "cyber"ing then the world may be a far better place