{"id":39174,"date":"2018-10-15T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39174"},"modified":"2018-10-15T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:41:12","slug":"australia-turning-really-authoritative-is-this-how-a-dark-age-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39174","title":{"rendered":"Australia Turning Really Authoritative? Is this How a Dark Age Begins?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australia Turning Really Authoritative? Is this How a Dark Age Begins?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The greed of governments in their pursuit of money is the single greatest threat to creating a Dark Age. With New Zealand imposing a $5,000 fine<\/strong><\/a> for just landing there and you refuse to hand over your pen and passwords to your phone for them to search, now we have Australia going really nuts to the point that they risk tech companies simply banning the sale of their\u00a0products in the country. The Assistance and Access Bill 2018 in Australia will force Google, Apple, Facebook,\u00a0and other technology groups to help Australian authorities decode certain forms of encrypted communications on their systems, or face fines of up to AU$10 million. The government says the legislation will help protect against terrorism, fraud and child abuse crimes, claiming it aims to ensure criminals \u201chave no place to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem that arises that failure to pay taxes they also call criminal. Hence, the hunt for money is greatly\u00a0aided by this type of legislation far more than any other pretend criminal activity. While the government has stopped short of demanding backdoor access to tech companies\u2019 systems that would allow the government to tap into end-to-end encryption services such as WhatsApp<\/strong>, it\u00a0does<\/strong><\/em>demand access to data at \u201cpoints where it is not encrypted.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apple, FOR INSTANCE,\u00a0 would not be made to create a backdoor for their iMessage<\/strong>\u00a0where every user\u2019s encryption key is different. But the government could request access to the single encryption key for its iCloud<\/strong>\u00a0services. When you send a message to a friend, it\u2019s encrypted as it travels between the two devices, and when it arrives, it\u2019s decrypted for your friend to read, which is when the government should get to read it. The Australian government is cleverly\u00a0demanding not a backdoor, but a \u201cside door\u201d to gain access to whatever people are sending.<\/p>\n

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Australia Turning Really Authoritative? Is this How a Dark Age Begins? The greed of governments in their pursuit of money is the single greatest threat to creating a Dark Age. With New Zealand imposing a $5,000 fine for just landing there and you refuse to hand over your pen and passwords to your phone for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[29,5496,22321,41,22320,1088,1493,378,379,5479,536,4002,783,786],"class_list":["post-39174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-apple","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-assistance-and-access-bill","tag-australia","tag-authoritative","tag-dark-ages","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-government","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-money","tag-new-zealand","tag-taxes","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39175,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39174\/revisions\/39175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}