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First they took their guns, now they take the rest...


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So we keep hearing the blathering on, over and over, how successful Australia has been in its gun confiscation. Yey for them. They just started step two of that. It's kind of the same recipe that happened in the infancy of WWII, though there, Hitler moved much quicker. This is much more subtle and dangerous.

 

https://newatlas.com/australia-encryption-law-passes-controversy/57560/

 

And as the article states, the implication for just Australia doing this is that companies who operate worldwide will probably just have one back door and not disclose it anywhere else, it really is a nasty situation. But to the point of this post, first they took the guns, now they took all your information/data/privacy and dignity.

 

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Despite other major western governments expressing concerns over the criminal use of encryption technologies, Australia is the first to push this issue to its legislative endpoint. ...

Australia is not the first, not even in the Western world, to have an anti-encryption law. France beat them to it long ago with a law that prohibited the use of encryption stronger than 64 bits.

 

At the time the law was in effect, Microsoft dealt with it by disabling strong (i.e., 128-bit) encryption in the OS if the machine's location was specified as France. It led to an IIS attack known as the "You are in France" attack. If a hacker could convince an IIS server anywhere in the world that it was in France, the server would downgrade its implementation of SSL to 64 bits.

 

France repealed its anti-encryption law in 2004.

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