[LINK] Australian Privacy Foundation's 'easy option'?

[Roger Clarke]

At 18:18 +1000 27/4/07, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>   ...  For that part, you do what you've always done - get a court 
>order applying to a specific connection and capture its traffic.  ...

They're well beyond that now, RC2 - oh, alright then, RC1  (:-)}

The whole point of the telecomms amendments of the last few years has 
been to get as much of the national security community (and where 
feasible law enforcement as well) beyond the need for pesky judicial 
authority.  Self-issued warrants are so much more convenient, or just 
authority-at-law.


>  ... I suspect at some point law enforcement is going to have to 
>accept that encryption is "here to stay".  ...

They're still smarting from the loss of previous rounds.  Reality is 
no constraint when you'er a committed believer in national-security / 
original-sin / everyone's-a-bastard-'xcept-thee-'n'-me.


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