The absurdity of the government’s politically driven Christmas deadline is further belied by the Bill's mandated 28 day consultation period for the issuance of Technical Capability Notices (s117W) https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r6195_first-reps/toc_pdf/18204b01.pdf;fileType=application/pdf …
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(my kids will readily tell you, it’s already less than 28 days until Christmas.)
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You might hope that the govt took 18 months to introduce this legislation because they were doing their homework, consulting widely to get it right. Sadly, not.
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A wide range of academics, NGOs, defense contractors, international technical standards bodies and tech companies have all raised legitimate issues that deserve serious attention. Even the President of the Senate has flagged concerns:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/29/senate-president-warns-encryption-bill-could-erode-parliamentary-privilege …
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Worst of all - the government's politically driven desperation on this bill may actually DAMAGE Australia's national security.
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As the Chair of Australian security vendor Senetas Francis Galbally told PJCIS on Friday, the Bill ‘compromises the security of citizens, businesses and governments. It will be easier for cyber criminals, terrorists, to target systems and to be able to break into those systems”.
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The importance of protecting end to end encryption for our national security is underlined by the face that GCHQ, British intelligence, drove its invention – in order to protect communications between intelligence officers and members of the UK Govt:https://www.wired.com/1999/04/crypto/
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Parliament has been debating foreign interference laws recently – breaking encryption in a way that even inadvertently allows foreign adversaries to read Ministers’ and MPs communications would not be in the national interest.
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Coalition MPs understand the importance of secure communications themselves – Malcolm Turnbull used the end to end encrypted app, Wickr to coordinate his leadership challenge against Tony Abbotthttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-03/malcolm-turnbull-uses-secret-messaging-app-instead-of-sms/6276712 …
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FYI, using an encrypted application does not imply an understanding of the importance (or even definition) of secure communications. I can assure you, they don't.
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