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Re:Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended by robryan on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:56AM (#18616962)
Careful criminals will surely be able to find a set of software that isn't affected. Australia isn't the US, only a small portion of software companies would have a large local presence here.
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Re:Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended by ashildr on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:40PM (#18620228)
I’m sure that will change now.

From small portion to none. And basically Australian software developers are unemployable now.

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Re:Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended by sebazzz on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:45AM (#18618957)
The problem is that a backdoor might not be so obvious. It can be simply a wrong chosen algorithm key size, and you need to be a cryptographic expert to know that.
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Re:Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended by brokenmachine on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:57PM (#18624758)
That would have to be a systematic weakness... except systematic weakness is probably doublespeak for "whatever the fuck we want to do" anyway.
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