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Re: The Government's War on Encryption

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers
Subject Re: The Government's War on Encryption
Date 2017-07-20 20:39 +1000
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"Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message 
news:okop2e$13bj$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:okgs61$h1u$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>>>> news:okc8kb$111$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>>>>> A new law proposed by Turnbull appears to be aimed at undermining
>>>>> the security of all popular online services using encryption
>>>>> to secure user's data. Particularly those offering end-to-end
>>>>> encryption which ensures that even the service operators have
>>>>> no way of accessing data stored and transferred through their
>>>>> systems.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> With this in mind, I feel it should be asked:
>>>>
>>>>> If terrorism enables the erosion of the
>>>>> capabilities offered by the internet,
>>>>
>>>> Taint gunna happen, you watch.
>>>>
>>>>> one of the key projects of the Western world in the 21st century,
>>>>
>>>> 20th, actually.
>>>
>>> Oh yes, never noticed. Funny that. Or perhaps I just meant that its
>>> been advanced and popularised significantly during the 21st century?
>>>
>>>>> has it not, to some extent, begun to win?
>>>>
>>>> Nope.
>>>>
>>>> And whatever that fool Turdbull wants, isnt going to happen.
>>>>
>>>> There is no way that Apple will be providing anything that
>>>> allows govt to snoop on what you are doing and even if
>>>> they were that stupid, it completely trivial to ensure that
>>>> govt can't do that, whatever legislation govt produces.
>>>
>>> The internet isn't all run by Apple (thankfully),
>>
>> Sure, but that was just one example of an operation that
>> wouldn?t do that even if Turdbull did make that law here.
>>
>> I doubt Apple would do it even if it was law in the US either.
>
> Rubbish,

We'll see...

> Apple have been part of NSA's Prism program since
> 2012, along with Google, Facebook, and more.

How odd that the FBI had to try to get the court to order them to
assist with getting the data they wanted from a particular phone.

> True they might not have known if they were hacked, but
> they didn't go into panic mode when they found out either.

They fixed the problem when it became clear what had happened.

> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

Just because some fool journo claims something...

>>> and it's not always trivial to ensure that other people are able
>>> to use systems that you have cause to believe are still secure.

>> Sure, but that?s irrelevant to whether
>> that law would work here, it wouldn?t.
>>
>> The govt is now legally free to do anything it likes
>> with respect to fucking over your system to snoop
>> on it, but Apple particularly goes out of its way to
>> stop that happening and even refuses court orders
>> to fuck over a system that they have produced.
>>
>>>> Its all just more mindless piss and wind from pollys.
>>
>>> The pollys in America and the UK have already
>>> done a pretty good job of making it reality.
>>
>> Like hell they have with the most secure systems.

> Nonsense,

Fact.

> the yanks forced the Lavabit email service, that was used by
> Edward Snowden, to close in 2013 because they refused to
> install a backdoor which would have allowed the government
> access to all of their user's encrypted email data:

And nothing even remotely like that happened with Apple.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
 

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      Re: The Government's War on Encryption "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 17:31 +1000

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