INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Back in July 2017, the Australian Government stated its intention to introduce new legislation that would force companies to decrypt secure
messages, and now the details surrounding the proposed laws are finally coming to light.While Australian telcos already offer a degree of
messaging services.As such, the proposed bill is intended to request a degree of cooperation in accessing devices or messages from any tech
learned about the proposed legislation come from an exposure draft of the Assistance and Access Bill 2018, which offers close to 200 pages
access to encrypted communications from the providers of those services.While the companies being issued the requests are initially only
the data in the situation where it has access to it, or to devise a means of obtaining the data if not.The inherent issueThe latter
the encryption process to somehow create a decryption solution within 28 days.The companies affected could include telcos, messaging service
providers, physical communications facilities and their staff, or even contracted software developers that happened to have worked on any of
these.Critics of the legislation have previously pointed out that it could undermine the security of end-to-end encrypted messaging, which
would otherwise see the communication unconditionally protected until it reaches the recipient's device
comply with the proposed laws without these in place.
