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Australia To Compel Technology Firms To Provide Access To Encrypted Missives (reuters.com)
Australia on Friday proposed new laws to compel companies such as U.S. social media giant Facebook and device manufacturer Apple to provide security agencies access to encrypted messages. From a report: The measures will be the first in an expected wave of global legislation as pressure mounts on technology companies to provide such access after several terror suspects used encrypted applications ahead of attacks. Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, is on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown radicals since 2014 and authorities have said they have thwarted several plots, although Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said law enforcement needed more help. "We need to ensure the internet is not used as a dark place for bad people to hide their criminal activities from the law," Turnbull told reporters in Sydney. "The reality is, however, that these encrypted messaging applications and voice applications are being used obviously by all of us, but they're also being used by people who seek to do us harm."
Will happen, eventually. But it will not solve the underlying problem of encryption technology being widely available. That stable door has been open for so long that the horse has bolted, galloped, cantered and eventually settled down to raise a family somewhere in Wyoming.
Please remain calm, there is no reason to pani... wait, where are you all going?
What the actual fuck is wrong with these gods-be-damned politicians that they don't understand the simple FACT that if you put a gods-be-damned 'backdoor' into ANY encryption algorithm, that your DESTROY it's ability to keep sensitive data out of the hands of the very people you're trying to 'protect' against!? Does the entire gods-be-damned WORLD have lead in it's drinking water? THIS is the sort of thing I'm talking about when I say "People are getting DUMBER". Don't these politicians have techical advisors who are (hopefully!) competent and intelligent, telling them precisely what I said above (and a million times already)?
Please do one of two things: Either TAKE YOUR MEDS so you're not your usual obsessive-compulsive uber-pedantic pain-in-the-ass self, or kill yourself, preferably in the most painful way possible..
He CAN'T kill himself, he's immortal. That's why he got annoyed with incorrect uses of the word 'immortal.'