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Australia's promised “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill is out and the government has kept its word - it doesn't want a backdoor, just the keys to your front one.
The draft of The Assistance and Access Bill 2018 calls for anyone using or selling communications services in Australia will be subject to police orders for access to private data.
That includes all vendors of computers, phones, apps, social media and cloud services in the Lucky Country, and anyone within national borders using them. These data-tapping orders will be enforced with fines of up to AU$10m (US$7.3m) for companies or $50,000 ($36,368) for individuals
The draft legislation also wants five years in prison for anyone who reveals a data-slurping investigation is going on. And while there's no explicit encryption backdoor requirements in the 110 page draft bill, our first look suggests there doesn't need to be.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 14 2018, @11:21PM (5 children)
There's very little chance of this passing, as the Australian Senate is not controlled by the current government.
This is pretty much just the current ruling coalition pandering to a weird, authoritarian wing of their own base.
I work for a massive US-owned multinational with extensive manufacturing all over Australia, and I can tell you that we use end-to-end encryption. The chances of us handing keys over to the Australian Federal Police or whoever are slim to none.
I would not be at all surprised if companies like ours use the threat of job losses to lobby these idiots.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Tuesday August 14 2018, @11:57PM (3 children)
Yeah. And Trump never had a chance, and neither did BREXIT.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday August 15 2018, @12:24AM (1 child)
Neither of which happened in Australia.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @03:46AM
USA got Trump after multiple "will not win there", "will not win here" and the final "will not win against Hilary" or "electoral college was created to avoid clowns like this".
Great Britain got Brexit from a consultive referendum that was pretty close and with fuzzy conditions (and lies, we learnt later), and multiple reaffirmations by those that really have the sovereignty (judges were asked about who really decides), even when conditions are starting to point pretty damaging or useless (= just stay in EU and keep the pros too, morons).
Australia can do join the club of retarded political choices with this law.
And remember, even if it looks completly nonsense, keep on digging once the hole is deep enough.
Never stop. Politicians of the world, your job is to put all comendians out of work, specially the absurd kind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @06:33AM
So what you're saying is that it'll happen if Putin wants it to happen?
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday August 15 2018, @04:31AM
You reckon? Wanna bet it will pass?
Labor party is an equal sell-out when it comes to internet freedom.
Remember Stephen Conroy?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/31/2129471.htm [abc.net.au]
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/senators-red-undie-remarks-fall-flat-in-new-york-20120928-26pqt.html [smh.com.au]
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford