The right to privacy is less of an issue than with the breaking of things that ought not be broken. All it will take is one bank to go down because their escrow keys were acquired by another sovereign state and you have the country in lots of trouble. Attacks on a key escrow the government holds for all keys won't be by some kid in the basement. It will be by other countries.
The so called "bad guys" will just build infrastructure that doesn't adhere to such regulations. Even now its not hard to do. Whats to stop people building their own CA's to encrypt their comms? You think that if someone does they are going to give the keys to the govt? Sure they can't use facebook or twitter or other public services but they sure as hell can plan whatever it is they want to without having anyone eve's drop on them. Essentially the only people this sort of thing impacts is the average joe. ------------------------------------------------ *Nick Gale* *T:* (08) 9425 5029 *M: *0418 989 020 *E:* nickg...@gmail.com P Please consider the environment before you print this email. On 13 June 2017 at 21:37, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I'm saying is there was the social contract, then the internet came > along, then the social contract was extended to encompass the internet. I > don't mean to offend when I say this is inevitable, but I think it's > counter productive to argue all regulation is evil, and the right to > privacy trumps all other rights. Accepting that, we can have a public > debate about the necessary checks and balances. > > Kind regards > > Paul Wilkins > > On 13 June 2017 at 21:25, Mark Smith <markzzzsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 13 June 2017 at 20:50, grenville armitage <garmit...@swin.edu.au> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 06/13/2017 20:19, Paul Wilkins wrote: >> >> >> >> [...] That the technology is new doesn't change the fundamentals of >> >> liberty vs state authority. >> > >> > >> > Indeed. >> > >> >> Agree. Pity he argued the opposite. >> >> Paraphrasing, "Magna Carta .... now we have the Internet, so everybody >> needs to trust the government with our crypto keys, regardless of >> whether we're under suspicion of committing a crime or not." >> >> I wonder if Paul would be comfortable with the government legislating >> that we must give them copies of our front door keys? That too would >> be government mandated key escrow. >> >> >> > cheers, >> > gja >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > AusNOG mailing list >> > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net >> > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> > > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > >
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