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Australia wants tech companies to let cops 'n' snoops see messages without backdoors

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Re: WTF?

but 100% like US-Government certified-surveillance

Correct

As I have said a few times - our politicos are watching with extreme interest the events in Russia and their centralized escrow approach.

The difference, however is that in Russia, FSB and Co presently pretend (we do not know if this is true or not) that they do not collect any data real time and they rely on provider's complying with data retention regulation to keep copies of the data. Hence, while they (supposedly) have the keys, they cannot read the data until they have a court order to obtain it. At least that is the official line and this is why this passed their constitutional court.

In a 100% like US-Government certified-surveillance or 100% like UK-Government certified-surveillance or any 5 eyes for that matter all data on any of the main national trunks and all data on international interconnects is leached by the government realtime. So the result of copying the "Lonely Russian Boy without friends" homework is actually unchecked realtime government surveillance.

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