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Re:Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended by driverdan on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:40AM (#18618354)
I downvoted you because the bill explicitly says it excludes systemic changes that compromise security. Apps will not have systemic spyware, only specific users can be targeted.

Open source apps like Signal would be extremely hard to compromise since no one is going to allow a backdoor commit.

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Re:Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended by claudiawerner on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:35AM (#18618847)
Does this mean that they can only mandate the backdooring of a user's communication if they know who the user is? Doesn't that seem irrelevant to the concerns they've raised in the past of having apprehended a suspect but been unable to decrypt their previous communications?
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