SavannahMann
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One of the ways that many services have avoided the problem of being forced to open emails and other communications for LEO’s and Intelligence Agencies is that they made it impossible for them to do it. In short, they created a puzzle so sophisticated that even they who know how the puzzle is made, can’t break it. Now, Australia is requiring that all those folks put a back door in to allow LEO’s and Intelligence Agents to view the information whenever they like.
Australia gets world-first encryption busting laws
National Security again trumps even basic protections for the people. Because here is the dirty little secret. If the LEO’s have a backdoor into the encryption, so does everyone else. All they have to do is find the door and the password, and they’re in. Private communications would be public, and that is supposed to be an issue right? I mean, remember the international news that wouldn’t go away when Jennifer Lawrence had her nude pictures hacked? Now, anyone will be able to hack anything, because all the encryption must have a back door. So choosing a difficult, or even impossible to guess password is wasted effort. You might as well have GOD as your password.
What does this matter to you, and me? We don’t live in Australia so who cares? Well the same software is going to be used everywhere. Do you think the Australian Government is going to accept the excuse that that version of the software was intended for America, and shouldn’t have ever found it’s way to Melbourne?
As has been the problem since the cops found that computers worked to help them, they are lazy as shit. When you say Detective, then someone clever who is able to connect the dots using facts and evidence comes to mind. Sherlock Holmes realizing that people are working to dig a tunnel and rob a bank by glancing at the dirty knees of the mans pants. Nero Wolfe realizing that a man had been murdered because of an article cut out of a newspaper. All of those great stories of reality where a cop sees something that is just wrong, and realizes that a larger crime is being committed. The beat cop who found Eric Rudolph dumpster diving behind the Grocery Store.
There are thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of stories of that. Now however, the cops have to have the encryption busted. You see, they’re not smart enough to connect the dots. They don’t want to admit that it takes time to brute force the encryption using supercomputers that are expensive to buy, and operate. They don’t want to track the guy on foot, or in a car, they want GPS functions of the phone to do it for them. It’s just too hard to do it the old fashioned way.
So all of us are going to be far more susceptible to hackers, and thieves, because the Government of Australia is lazy.
My suggestion to Google, and the rest is this. Shut down all the offices in Australia. Turn off all services for that entire nation. Anyone types Google.com in the web bar, gets a busted internet page. Drive the Austraillian internet back to the days of Compuserve or AOL. No where to go on the net and nothing to do when you get there. When Australia complains, tell them that you have no intention of weakening security for your clients, and that is that. Then just hang up the phone. Australia can complain, but in the end, they’ll have to give up the ghost and rescind the law. Just close the doors, and wish them well. Goodbye and good luck douche.
Australia gets world-first encryption busting laws
National Security again trumps even basic protections for the people. Because here is the dirty little secret. If the LEO’s have a backdoor into the encryption, so does everyone else. All they have to do is find the door and the password, and they’re in. Private communications would be public, and that is supposed to be an issue right? I mean, remember the international news that wouldn’t go away when Jennifer Lawrence had her nude pictures hacked? Now, anyone will be able to hack anything, because all the encryption must have a back door. So choosing a difficult, or even impossible to guess password is wasted effort. You might as well have GOD as your password.
What does this matter to you, and me? We don’t live in Australia so who cares? Well the same software is going to be used everywhere. Do you think the Australian Government is going to accept the excuse that that version of the software was intended for America, and shouldn’t have ever found it’s way to Melbourne?
As has been the problem since the cops found that computers worked to help them, they are lazy as shit. When you say Detective, then someone clever who is able to connect the dots using facts and evidence comes to mind. Sherlock Holmes realizing that people are working to dig a tunnel and rob a bank by glancing at the dirty knees of the mans pants. Nero Wolfe realizing that a man had been murdered because of an article cut out of a newspaper. All of those great stories of reality where a cop sees something that is just wrong, and realizes that a larger crime is being committed. The beat cop who found Eric Rudolph dumpster diving behind the Grocery Store.
There are thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of stories of that. Now however, the cops have to have the encryption busted. You see, they’re not smart enough to connect the dots. They don’t want to admit that it takes time to brute force the encryption using supercomputers that are expensive to buy, and operate. They don’t want to track the guy on foot, or in a car, they want GPS functions of the phone to do it for them. It’s just too hard to do it the old fashioned way.
So all of us are going to be far more susceptible to hackers, and thieves, because the Government of Australia is lazy.
My suggestion to Google, and the rest is this. Shut down all the offices in Australia. Turn off all services for that entire nation. Anyone types Google.com in the web bar, gets a busted internet page. Drive the Austraillian internet back to the days of Compuserve or AOL. No where to go on the net and nothing to do when you get there. When Australia complains, tell them that you have no intention of weakening security for your clients, and that is that. Then just hang up the phone. Australia can complain, but in the end, they’ll have to give up the ghost and rescind the law. Just close the doors, and wish them well. Goodbye and good luck douche.
