Re: Should ISP block child pornography?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Which is it…

It’s being reported on NPR as “Australia required Apple and others to remove encryption protections from their devices.”

That’s a massively different (and arguably even worse) outcome than “Australia is requiring Apple and others to provide
decryption technology to law enforcement.”

Owen


> On Dec 8, 2018, at 14:41 , bzs () theworld com wrote:
>
>
> On December 8, 2018 at 19:41 hank () efes iucc ac il (Hank Nussbacher) wrote:
> > Governments that require ISPs to block "certain" sites have no clue what is
> > required technologically to adhere to their demands.
>
> Well that's certainly true.
>
> Australia just passed a law mandating decryption be made available to
> law enforcement simply ignoring the many technical explanations about
> why we don't know how to do this without compromising security
> entirely.
>
> I've often said if a judge in their court orders you to raise your
> left foot in the air you would be well-advised to lift that foot.
>
> If the judge orders you to also raise your right foot the judge
> doesn't have a problem, YOU have a problem.
>
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
>
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