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...oh, it makes sense now, they like being watched.

Australia’s parliament on Thursday passed a bill forcing tech firms to help the country’s security agencies bypass the encryption in private messaging apps.


The Assistance and Access Bill will allow the police to tell the likes of WhatsApp and Signal that they must build in so-called backdoors, to give investigators access to the contents of messages—but only if the backdoors don’t constitute “systemic weaknesses” in the service’s security.

The bill will need to be rubberstamped into law by royal assent, which is expected to happen before Christmas.

They ask for a systematic weakness but only if it wont create a systematic weakness...
Good idea ? or no?

subgenius wrote:They ask for a systematic weakness but only if it wont create a systematic weakness..

I'll help you understand. What they mean by the phrase

... only if the backdoors don’t constitute “systemic weaknesses” in the service’s security.

Is basically that giving certain designated persons access to the system under certain conditions must not do anything to weaken the pre-existing security of the system against non-authorised persons. That's not an easy condition to fulfil, but it's not unimaginable.

As for whether this is a good idea or not - that would depend, in my view, on what legal hurdles the designated persons have to clear before being allowed access. In many countries, such things require a court order to be activated.