Have you read about this yet ?
https://itnews.com.au/news/...

I don't live in a FVEY country , but it still terrifies me.

"Australia" well shit

This is fucked. Even if they tried such a thing it should just force people underground and to break the law for their own safety.

Luckily it appears Canada at least has no intention of legislating encryption backdoors as an advisory committee has already recommended against it, but it's fucking scary that ANY country would consider this. I mean besides authoritarian countries like the USA and China of course.

https://youtu.be/eW-OMR-iWOE

Hilariously relevant.

I've never understood the logic behind these things:

The bad guys who don't want to get caught will be smart enough to use non backdoored encryption. It's just grasping for low hanging fruit.

Also, what are they gonna do, make AES illegal? It's just math. Very complex math, but nonetheless. What a world that would be where certain types of math are banned.

@deadPix3l This. What to do now when you're a criminal and using encrypted chats? 😥

Oh, right, you just switch to an app or provider outside of the five eyes. Damn that was hard!

@linuxxx even if they backdoor every provider possible, domestic and otherwise, it's not like AES, RSA, ECC, the signal protocol, etc (I could literally do this all day there's so many) aren't openly published standards that when implemented correctly are uncrackable by current supercomputers.

You can't just backdoor new algorithms, and old providers. You have to literally scrub thousands of documents and math off the face of the Earth.

Good luck!