2/11: You may recall that last year the Defence Export Controls Office at first declined to renew my general permit to communicate about encryption with all non-sanctioned countries, instead giving me a permit only for the handful I'd previously declared I was communicating with.
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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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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.pic.twitter.com/cfjZP1hD7t
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5/11: What would an objective assessment of a country's nice democratic nature look like? One option is https://monitor.civicus.org/ 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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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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7/11: Even worse, it includes some countries that are ethnically-European but severely deviating from democracy, such as Hungary and Poland. Quotes from: https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/Feb2019_FH_FITW_2019_Report_ForWeb-compressed.pdf …pic.twitter.com/qVBDhtoimL
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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?pic.twitter.com/3aLl3RmJiH
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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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10/11: In https://www.defence.gov.au/publications/reviews/tradecontrols/Docs/Dept_of_Defence.pdf … 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.pic.twitter.com/9jOHVPlzNK
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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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