Schneier Slams Australia's Encryption Laws and CyberCon Speaker Bans

'Governments breaking encryption is bad, and "will get worse once
breaking encryption means people can die," says one of the world's
leading security experts. From a report:

"Australia has some pretty draconian laws about forcing tech companies
to break security," says cryptographer and computer security
professional Bruce Schneier. He's referring to the controversial
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and
Access) Act 2018, which came into force in December. "I actually don't
like that, because stuff that you do flows downhill to the US. So stop
doing that," he told the Australian Cybersecurity Conference, or
CyberCon, in Melbourne on Wednesday. Schneier's argument against
breaking encrypted communications is simple. "You have to make a
choice. Either everyone gets to spy, or no one gets to spy. You can't
have 'We get to spy, you don't.' That's not the way the tech works,"
he said. "As this tech becomes more critical to life, we simply have
to believe, accept, that securing it is more important than leaving it
insecure so you can eavesdrop on the bad guys."'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/10/09/1855255

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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