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With the Australian Labor Party caving in on the proposed encryption law that will allow Australian police and agencies to access private data directly from vendors, the new proposed laws are now agreed in principle to introduce government level snooping of user messages and encrypted files. Agencies like ASIO or the Australian Federal Police will have the ability to request that telecommunications and tech companies help them with their investigations and compel companies to build ways to allow targeted access to encrypted communications data.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:36AM (1 child)
What specifically? The US has been at it for some time now, going back to at least the 80s.
First it was fighting the largest telecom because due process was rigidly enforced and law enforcement felt they couldn't act fast enough and should be on the honor principle instead. This is the true reason why they broke up Ma Bell in the first place, not anti-monopoly laws specifically. Had Ma Bell played ball, I wouldn't be surprised if their monopoly was allowed to continue somehow.
Then you had shit like CALEA which mandated that all telecoms provide intercept capabilities. There was resistance, till the FBI paid the half billion for the mediation equipment. This is why the entire PSTN network is bugged at the L1 level. That whole AT&T and the room with the fiber going to the NSA.
When modems were the rage the FBI wanted chips on every modem that allowed them intercept capabilities. Behind the tech curve a little since the Internet was only a few years ahead.
Once people started using email and Internet aggressively, the FBI called for the Raptor program to have their own servers in every datacenter, every telecom, performing mass collection of all emails, messages, or anything determined to be a communication. They would fucking log Everquest chat at your ISP level.
More recently you had the FBI arguing that Internet communications fell under Telecom laws, and therefore they didn't have to perform foreplay goddammit and could get straight to the rapin'. FCC still hasn't reclassified it, which is why you have continual attacks on encryption using whatever hyperbole they need to. "Responsible" encryption just means, "stop being private you fuckers! Were the FBI!"
That's just one of the Three Stooges. There is still the CIA and the NSA. We know now the CIA was Curly, because those idiots couldn't roll a covert comm channel if an agent's life depended on it. That leaves the NSA. All the eggheads that could be like the Justice League with *pow* to that zero-day, *whammo* to another, but fuck that.... let's collect them instead! Give them cool names! Use it on non-foreign targets. Yay! These are the people who weakened a well used CSPRNG so that they had an edge on cryptanalysis that was enough to crack some encryption that people didn't think you could. Not saving American corporations from the zero-day, but looking the other way.
So, yeah, which attempt and by whom?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Hyper on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:40AM
The parent was referring to geoblocking stores.
I was thinking about DVD region blocking. Which has been ruled illegal in some places.
Further to that, the US placed an embargo on encryption. What will happen this time? You can't export or import encryption based apps? Can't import a phone or computer that doesn't report back home?
Will AU follow in the steps of USA?
Those who do not learn from the past..