{"id":6202,"date":"2017-06-30T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2017-06-30T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:29:47","slug":"australian-government-spearheads-enforced-decryption-mandate-at-five-eyes-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/australian-government-spearheads-enforced-decryption-mandate-at-five-eyes-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian government spearheads enforced decryption mandate at Five Eyes meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Australian government has emerged from two days of talks with its Five Eyes intelligence partners confident in its plans to have technology firms decrypt communications for law enforcement purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
[It was] also decided to try and engage with internet service providers and technology companies to secure co-operation through an agreed set of protocols, rather than law changes, he said.<\/p>\nHe said these protocols would not amount to a specific request for implanted backdoors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Forget for a moment that the Australian representative in all this is an incompetent dinosaur called George Brandis and see if you can come up with an solution\u00a0to this problem.<\/p>\n
On one side what Australian and the Five Eyes group are doing is a massive invasion of privacy and because of the few the many are adversely affected.<\/p>\n
On the other essentially\u00a0unbreakable encryption renders real-time monitoring of potential threats impossible.<\/p>\n