re More on Australia plans law to force tech giants to decrypt messages

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: "David Magda" <dmagda () ee ryerson ca>
> Subject: Re: [IP] More on Australia plans law to force tech giants to decrypt messages
> Date: July 14, 2017 at 1:59:38 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
>
> Facebook owns WhatsApp, which is used by the Australian PM and cabinet:
>
> """
> The Australian Signals Directorate has said it has no concerns about the
> Turnbull government's avid use of WhatsApp for normal communication, but
> Labor is questioning whether it has been used for the transmission of
> sensitive and classified messages.
>
> Earlier on Monday, the Prime Minister's department has confirmed his
> smartphone app of choice, WhatsApp, is not on the Australian Signals
> Directorate's approved list for sensitive and classified communication.
> But the Prime Minister's cyber security adviser Alastair MacGibbon
> consulted ASD and said they had advised there was no problem for it to be
> used by parliamentarians for everyday discussion.
> """
>
> http://www.afr.com/news/spies-give-whatsapp-malcolm-turnbulls-app-of-choice-the-ok-20161017-gs437i 
> <http://www.afr.com/news/spies-give-whatsapp-malcolm-turnbulls-app-of-choice-the-ok-20161017-gs437i>
>
>
>
> On Fri, July 14, 2017 08:30, Dave Farber wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> > > Date: July 14, 2017 at 7:58:08 AM EDT
> > > To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> > > Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> > > Subject: Australia plans law to force tech giants to decrypt messages
> > >
> > > Australia plans law to force tech giants to decrypt messages
> > >
> > > https://apnews.com/621e0913072a4cb5a1a7f7338721b059/Australia-plans-law-to-force-tech-giants-to-decrypt-messages
> > >
> > > CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Friday proposed
> > > a new cybersecurity law to force global technology companies such as
> > > Facebook and Google to help police by unscrambling encrypted messages
> > > sent by suspected extremists and other criminals.
> > >
> > > But some experts, as well as Facebook, warned that weakening end-to-end
> > > encryption services so that police could eavesdrop would leave
> > > communications vulnerable to hackers.
> [...]




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