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Commenters recommend it as an entertaining, accessible explanation of how bad the law is, including for non-technical audiences.
A satirical 'honest' government ad from The Juice Media about Australia's 2018 Assistance and Access anti-encryption bill. It lays out in blunt terms what the law would let authorities do.
“It's very entertaining, and explains it in a way that everyday people can understand how bad it will be.” (HN, 2018)
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FWIW, I've had pretty good success in getting non-techie friends and family to write in after showing them this video: [this video] It's very entertaining, and explains it in a way that everyday people can understand how bad it will be. I highly urge all Australians to either send this video out to your circles. (No affiliation, it came up in a previous thread about this topic)
Entertaining explainer that motivated non-technical people to write in.
I came across this video that shows the potential issues with this bill [this video] What is concerning is I am building a information management system that focuses on privacy and this sort of bill makes a mockery of the entire concept.
Shows potential issues with the anti-encryption bill.
Companies have to build tools that grants any law enforcement agency access to whatever data they want on whomever they want. For an email provider, these tools could include a search function that lets them look through every email on the platform. Or they could just ask them to mail them a daily dump of all new messages on a floppy disk. The point being, FastMail can’t tell the world what assistance and access their granting the government and there is no oversight or even transparency that could spark public debates on what is reasonable and what isn’t. This satirical video is a good introduction to the changes: [this video]
Two relevant humor bits. * Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || [this video] * Encryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube || [link]
Relevant humor bit on the Australian anti-encryption law.
> FastMail won’t be making changes to our technology or policies in response to this bill. Law enforcement has always been able to request information from us through the Telecommunications Act with a lawful warrant. Because we have the ability to decrypt all data, there is no need to make changes that circumvent encryption. Isn't this, "No need to force us to install a backdoor, we've already got one!" Kind of disappointing. Nothing in this article seems to be promoting privacy, just ways they comply with the laws -- and have been for as long as they've been around. If you care about privacy, shouldn't you move your HQ out of Australia? You aren't allowed to even tell people you've been served warrants now, correct? Gag orders mean we have to trust the Australian Government... we can't trust service providers. Eww. * Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || [this video]
Listed as related satire amid criticism of FastMail's stance.
That means their servers cannot be directly accessed but since they're based in Australia the company can be compelled to install decryption software without notifying anyone. Source: [this video]
Cited as source for companies being compelled to install decryption.
Relevant. * Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || [this video] Also worth noting that Australia already went ahead with their anti-encryption laws. Feels inevitable that we'll lose encryption to the nanny state. Really sucks, but I haven't got a clue how to convince the grandmothers out there why the cops shouldn't be trusted here. It's so frustrating. * Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube || [link] I think it'll be one of those things that society won't wake up to needing until it's long gone. Depressing as fuck.
Relevant satire on Australia's anti-encryption law.
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