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Post by djmills on Dec 7, 2018 18:39:55 GMT -5
Australia just passed some law that will allow Aus Police to get into any encrypted site where they think Aus citizens/terrorists are communicating. Not sure how that is going to work since Google (and all other tech sites) is not Australian owned, but I will wait and see.
But, I can't see USA FBI (and other agencies) allowing Australian Police to "back door" into other country/citizens encrypted communications.
If it applies world wide then encryption won't matter at all. :-)
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Post by Daniel on Dec 9, 2018 7:40:14 GMT -5
Australia just passed some law that will allow Aus Police to get into any encrypted site where they think Aus citizens/terrorists are communicating. Not sure how that is going to work since Google (and all other tech sites) is not Australian owned, but I will wait and see. But, I can't see USA FBI (and other agencies) allowing Australian Police to "back door" into other country/citizens encrypted communications. If it applies world wide then encryption won't matter at all. :-) The sheer lunacy of the Aussie plan is hard to underestimate. They essentially want every encryption vendor to create a "back door" that the police can use for spying. In other words, they want to destroy the entire point of encryption and assume that the bad guys won't find and use that back door as well. It's a classic example of politicians making technology policy decisions when they have no understanding of the technology. They are about as dim as the science deniers we have in the USA. |
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Post by djmills on Dec 9, 2018 15:53:24 GMT -5
I know. It is not a "Back Door" exactly. Google "Encryption Law Australia" and read the Guardian article at the top of the page. It explains how they want to monitor encrypted conversations, with keystroke capture before encryption, etc. Or the Sydney Morning Herald article. If the gov expects the companies to monitor individuals, they will not do it without lots of money to cover the wages of the company staff monitoring, so it could get quite expensive just to listen in on conversations.
I don't want to get into a political conversation, so won't comment on our Aus Government other than to generalise.
What I want to point out is since the 1950s/1960s, every 10 years the Average IQ of Australian citizens has fallen one point. And all of the Aus Politicians are younger than me. :-)
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Post by Daniel on Dec 9, 2018 19:16:06 GMT -5
I know. It is not a "Back Door" exactly. Google "Encryption Law Australia" and read the Guardian article at the top of the page. It explains how they want to monitor encrypted conversations, with keystroke capture before encryption, etc. Or the Sydney Morning Herald article. If the gov expects the companies to monitor individuals, they will not do it without lots of money to cover the wages of the company staff monitoring, so it could get quite expensive just to listen in on conversations. I don't want to get into a political conversation, so won't comment on our Aus Government other than to generalise. What I want to point out is since the 1950s/1960s, every 10 years the Average IQ of Australian citizens has fallen one point. And all of the Aus Politicians are younger than me. :-) Thanks for the additional links. Here's the article that gave me the impression that there were back doors: Australia Passes Encryption Law Every Tech Expert Says Will Lead To DisasterThe first paragraph reads... |
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Post by djmills on Dec 9, 2018 19:54:08 GMT -5
First, I love the beautiful green grubs in the linked article. Second, I believe no company around the world will allow Aust to access backdoors into their software, as it opens up potential to steal userid details.
If I owned a company anywhere, including in Australia, I would tell the Aust govt to get lost, if they asked for access to any of my company detailed information, other than what the Tax Office needed. :-)
I suspect all companies will be like Amazon who said "stuff you" when Australia said Amazon (and other internet businesses) had to collect GST on all goods and services sold over the internet for items under $1000.00 value. :-)
The only ones hurt by the changes to GST laws in Australia are Aust citizens wanting to purchase goods via Amazon and can't. I suspect it will be the same with the data access laws.
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Post by Alan Petersen on Dec 10, 2018 18:27:34 GMT -5
My web host offers SSL encryption for free (as part of their web hosting package), so I was able to easily switch websites from http to https since Google is on a rampage and encryption is now part of their search algorithm (according to SEO experts). I use SiteGround. But seems most of the other major web hosts are offering SSL certs for free so check with your web host, you might have this already offered as a featured. It's easy to set up right from cPanel. Right. As I said up-thread, we're using the free cert from our hosting company, but all that cert does is offer encryption, not identification. It's enough to keep Google happy for now, but if Google get excited about site identity verification, those free certs won't be enough. I'm not going to worry about that, though. May never happen. Ah got it. So those aren't the real deal. But yes, unless Google slaps those down I won't worry about it since they seem to appease the beast for now. |
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Dec 10, 2018 23:08:27 GMT -5
In the case of the pub, I believe one or more of the ads, at some point, were the skeezy kind that insert themselves in your browser and hijack it. I have only had this happen on my phone, but it did. I didn't get the computer problem pop ups, but I did get one about my being a sweepstakes winner. It got to the point at the end of last week that I could not access the pub on my phone at all.
I was using Chrome which frankly sucks. Sorry Google, but it does. I finally went into Chrome to see if there was a way to block the ad and I did find a way in the settings. I could see the address the browser was being redirected to, so in Chrome, I went into the settings, then under advanced, went to site settings, then I tapped all sites and looked for the address. When I found it, I cleared the stored data and I've been able to get into the pub ever since.
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