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Re:Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban by privong on Saturday July 15, 2017 @08:13AM (#14776291)
> This means he can't have it both ways

I suspect the power asymmetry of the gov't being able to decide which of its own data is subject to FOI means he can have it both ways.

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Re:Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban by gottlos on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:25PM (#14794075)
They have to respond by law; even if it takes 18 months and dragging then through the AAT - and the response will be fuel for ridicule if it (predictably) refuses in the grounds of being too hard
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Re:Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban by privong on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @11:33AM (#14797332)
> the response will be fuel for ridicule if it (predictably) refuses in the grounds of being too hard

If ridicule worked, this madness would have already stopped at the point where the Australian PM implied the laws of mathematics are secondary to the laws of Australia.

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