Vanessa Teague

@VTeagueAus

Associate Professor in cybersecurity at The University of Melbourne

Opinions are my own, not those of The University of Melbourne
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2013.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    21. stu 2019.

    Thrilled to see the first practical test of Risk Limiting Audits for IRV (preferential/instant-runoff) voting! After years of work with , Andrew Conway, Peter Stuckey & , here are the pics of running a pilot audit of the SF DA's race.

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  2. prije 22 sata

    There are sound historical reasons for making the religion question optional. Census data is shared as microdata, i.e. individual records that are likely to be re-identifiable and easily linked with other datasets such as MBS-PBS At least make sensitive questions optional.

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  3. prije 22 sata

    While I appreciate the good intentions behind and others wanting to include gender and sexuality along with mental and chronic health questions on the census, I don't think a compulsory survey question is the right way to learn about stigmatised groups of people.

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  4. 31. sij

    So far Australians are still allowed to import encryption, so you're welcome to email me any time . 🙂 I just have to get a special permit before I return any useful contribution about encryption...

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  5. 31. sij

    These are powers granted to Defence under the Defence Trade Controls Act (2012). What affects me (& any other Australian who wants to export a new cryptographic algorithm) is intangible supply of encryption - see Most other things on the list are military.

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  6. 31. sij

    'Promotes ... exchanges of views and information' is completely false. 'Greater responsibility' is the key. I'm happy to take responsibility for considering carefully who I work with. It's the imposition of arbitrary military restrictions instead that hurts Australian science.

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  7. 31. sij

    But the rules vary. Many Wassennaar countries have a constitutional protection of free speech and hence don't restrict fundamental scientific research. Similar US rules have been found to violate the US First Amendment so are now defunct (I hope forever).

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  8. 31. sij

    There's a very specific list of controlled tech: which includes not 'cybersecurity' generally but encryption above 512 bits (RSA etc) or 56 bits (symmetric encryption). So exporting insecure encryption is fine. The list comes from

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  9. 30. sij

    Yes I'd be interested to hear whether others are getting the same list. It may be that other companies or researchers are applying for specific permits for export to countries that aren't on the list, which is an option for scientists too of course, but can take months to get.

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  10. 30. sij

    "I still struggle to comprehend this is a thing. " Yes, so do I.

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    30. sij

    Not only are these policies an affront to academic freedom, and not only are they unlikely to achieve any meaningful policy objective, but they're also a huge deterrent to Australian universities' faculty recruiting. So, huge net loss for the country.

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  12. 30. sij

    11/11: And yet in practice their list has a lot more to do with prejudice and tradition than with objective and up-to-date assessments of which countries pose a risk to our democracy. Have another harder think about my permit, please sir.

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  13. 30. sij

    10/11: In they argue that their superior information and understanding will allow them to make better decisions about whom Australian scientists and entrepreneurs should communicate with, than we could make ourselves.

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  14. 30. sij

    9/11: DEC is making a serious bid for control over technologies that are not on the Defence And Strategic Goods list, which would effectively give them the same control they have over cryptography, imposed over any field of Australian science or technology they decide to target.

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  15. 30. sij

    8/11: Israel is out, despite having told Aus what happened the last time we narrowly missed being the victims of a catastrophic terrorist attack. Seriously, people? If Australian cryptographers aren’t allowed to work with Israel, whose national security is going to take the hit?

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  16. 30. sij

    7/11: Even worse, it includes some countries that are ethnically-European but severely deviating from democracy, such as Hungary and Poland. Quotes from:

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  17. 30. sij

    6/11: So let's compare. DEC's list contains only one country without an ethincally-European majority (Japan). It has not one country in our region except NZ. Not the only open democracy in Asia (Taiwan) nor any of the open democracies in Africa, the Carribean or South America.

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  18. 30. sij

    5/11: What would an objective assessment of a country's nice democratic nature look like? One option is which recently downgraded Australia's rating from 'Open' to 'Narrowed' (gosh I wonder why) but lists numerous other open democracies in our region.

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  19. 30. sij

    4/11: This year I’ve got a list of 25 nice countries, communicating to whom about encryption is not a crime. For the rest, it’s 10 years’ jail unless I beg the ASD for a specific permit first. Sounds like an improved starting position, right? But have a close look at the list.

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  20. 30. sij

    3/11: Eventually they relented and reissued the general permit, when it was patiently explained to them yet again that undermining their own country’s cyber-defence capacity is just plain dumb.

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