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

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: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 18 2018, @11:08AM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 18 2018, @11:08AM (#694479)

    Turds are the same the world over. I believe it was Indiana that legislated pi to be 3.0 exactly.

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @11:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @11:32AM (#694484)

    That was caught before the vote.

    And it wasn't legislating pi to be 3.0, it was a new, proprietary, way of teaching math that Indiana (assuming you got the state right) got a chance to be the first state to implement. It got stopped exactly because some math guy explained to the legislature that under this new way of teaching math, one way of calculating pi would end up with 3.0 (or was it 4.0), but that wasn't even the worst. A different way of calculating pi would end up with 9 as a result. Yes, nine.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Monday June 18 2018, @03:54PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Monday June 18 2018, @03:54PM (#694552)

      3.2, actually. The bill was some numbnuts thinking he had successfully found a way to square the circle, which is right up there with perpetual motion as logically impossible things.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill [wikipedia.org]

      Although the bill has become known as the "Pi Bill", its text does not mention the name "pi" at all, and Goodwin appears to have thought of the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle as distinctly secondary to his main aim of squaring the circle.

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