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2:26 · 1.4M views · Sep 2, 2018
A satirical 'honest' government ad from The Juice Media about Australia's 2018 Assistance and Access anti-encryption bill. It lays out in blunt terms what the law would let authorities do.
Commenters recommend it as an entertaining, accessible explanation of how bad the law is, including for non-technical audiences.
8 comments from Hacker News
FWIW, I've had pretty good success in getting non-techie friends and family to write in after showing them this video: this video It's very entertaining, and explains it in a way that everyday people can understand how bad it will be. I highly urge all Australians to either send this video out to your circles. (No affiliation, it came up in a previous thread about this topic)
This video they made is absolutely hilarious, and shows just how un-hilarious and fucked up these proposed changes are: this video
Companies have to build tools that grants any law enforcement agency access to whatever data they want on whomever they want. For an email provider, these tools could include a search function that lets them look through every email on the platform. Or they could just ask them to mail them a daily dump of all new messages on a floppy disk. The point being, FastMail can’t tell the world what assistance and access their granting the government and there is no oversight or even transparency that could spark public debates on what is reasonable and what isn’t. This satirical video is a good introduction to the changes: this video
I came across this video that shows the potential issues with this bill this video What is concerning is I am building a information management system that focuses on privacy and this sort of bill makes a mockery of the entire concept.
> FastMail won’t be making changes to our technology or policies in response to this bill. Law enforcement has always been able to request information from us through the Telecommunications Act with a lawful warrant. Because we have the ability to decrypt all data, there is no need to make changes that circumvent encryption. Isn't this, "No need to force us to install a backdoor, we've already got one!" Kind of disappointing. Nothing in this article seems to be promoting privacy, just ways they comply with the laws -- and have been for as long as they've been around. If you care about privacy, shouldn't you move your HQ out of Australia? You aren't allowed to even tell people you've been served warrants now, correct? Gag orders mean we have to trust the Australian Government... we can't trust service providers. Eww. * Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || this video