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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.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 18 2018, @01:07PM (1 child)
Why wouldn't they? You can't properly budget for criminal activities, if the criminals aren't telling you what they're going to do!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @02:02PM
You are correct, there is a bug in the original comment.
Forgot to unsuspend reality.
This might not be obvious to someone backing this plan.
Here's the patched version.
Suspend reality for a second and assume that it is possible to put a backdoor in all products so that only the right folks under the right circumstances can get in.
Ok, now go back to the real world with real folks.
Why would the bad guys use it for their communications?