Just as an example of how "having the keys to decrypt things" can go wrong.
John Walker, Jr.
In 1967, Navy communications officer John Walker, Jr. snuck into the
Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., and offered to sell secrets. He then
handed over settings for the KL-47 cipher machine, which decoded
sensitive US Navy messages............ etc etc.. According to Vitaly
Yurchenko, a KGB defector, “It was the greatest case in KGB history. We
deciphered millions of your messages. If there had been a war, we would
have won it.”
https://listverse.com/2010/07/04/top-10-traitors-in-us-history/
There are plenty of other examples of why NOT to allow this bill.
Regards
On 12/09/18 17:20, Paul Julian wrote:
I think you hit the nail on the head Mark.
Regards
Paul
On Sep 12, 2018, at 10:55 AM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins...@gmail.com
<mailto:paulwilkins...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I can't wait to see the full extent of responses. What I've seen
so far speaks of not just the quality and detail of submissions,
but the broad base of responses, ensuring representation of a
diversity of interests, and raising a broad range of concerns and
recommendations.
It's a strong vindication for the processes of representative
democracy that so many have taken the time to make a contribution.
It isn’t “representative democracy” when the only reason the Govt is
pursuing this is because the Americans said they wanted it in a 5-eyes
meeting.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/five-eyes-nations-to-force-encryption-backdoors-511865
I think we can all expect the “broad range of concerns and
recommendations” to be ignored by the Government because they’re a
client State of the Americans and will bloody-well do what they’re
told, no matter what Australian voters say they want.
They might make some amendments around the edges, but only in places
where doing so doesn’t erect any significant barrier in the way of
them doing what they’ve already decided they’re going to do.
Then, in three years, they’ll come back and say they need to
“modernize Australia’s national security laws” (again) and undo the
amendments. Which is actually precisely what they’re doing now in
relation to the limits they placed on themselves three years ago
regarding data retention, if you’ll recall.
It is a corruption of the democratic process, not an example of it
functioning properly. There is no democratic brake on the advancement
of the intelligence community’s powers, they continue to do whatever
the hell they want, with no recourse.
Given the circumstances, it’s a bit naïve to suggest otherwise, don’t
you think?
- mark
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