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Australia's Major Parties Vote Against Encryption In Wake of Apple FBI Case (delimiter.com.au)
daria42 writes: If you're counting on Apple to keep your digital information safe, you may want to think again ... at least if you live in Australia. Yesterday the country's two major political parties — Labor and the Coalition — voted down a motion in Federal Parliament calling for strong encryption to be supported in the wake of the FBI's demands that Apple unlock iOS. It appears that implementing comprehensive telephone and email retention in Australia may not have been the end of demands by law enforcement in the country.
You demanded security in place of liberty
Now you accept vulnerability in place of security
And you'll never get the liberty you paid for all this back.
You didn't hear about it because it is a non-issue, not because of people not being interested, but because anything put forward by the greens or the independents in the senate is a non-issue. It's not even about the major parties keeping this below the radar, this is about as news worthy as a greens senator saying "From now on all t-shirts must be blue" and having that voted down.
This is solely and purely a political stunt by the greens to try and get some air time in the run up to the election later this year.
At least stupidity doesn't skip continents.
You are referring to the summary above I take it ... ;)
What has happened here is that a minor party (the Greens) have, almost on the spur of the moment, put forward a motion without any attempt to shore up political support in either House of Parliament, and --unsurprisingly, not being on the policy agenda of either major party, --said motion was not carried. There was never any intention by Sen Ludlam that his motion pass (he's not insane you know). This was done instead to highlight the issue (and perhaps his party's stance, though I note he was supported by minor parties of various political shades).
To conclude, as the summary does, that "[i]t appears that implementing comprehensive telephone and email retention in Australia may not have been the end of demands by law enforcement in the country" is either wildly misinformed, disingenuous, or outright insane. Now we probably haven't heard the end of demands by law enforcement in Australia, but the ineluctable defeat of this motion in the Senate has little to do with that.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
> Draconian social rules and nigh fascist government does not count in my world as "super high standard of living."
> Hate speech laws.
> Constant squealing about guns despite very low gun crime.
> Result of few guns equals high rape rates.
> Continual and unabashed repression of indiginites.
> Failure to adhere to any coherent use of English
If by "indignities" you mean "indigenous", it sounds like a typical Harvard dorm to *me*. Can you add a pretense of deep social and political knowledge based on no actual experience whatsoever? Then we can send you the entire GLBT populaton of HArvard Square that spend all their parents' income on coffee shops and fashion trends who insist that actually *looking* to see if a car has the right of way before wandering into traffic is giving information to the enemy, and it might be possible to get through Harvard Square on the way to work.