Politicians are still talking about banning encryption on the Internet, this will allow them to monitor all communications that would otherwise be unreadable due to the encryption used, whether SSL or GPG encryption, but SSL is necessary for securing banking sites, validating a website so that the user knows that they are actually connecting to … Read more
The Australian Turnbull government plans to ask encryption software developers to install back-doors in their software to enable the Police or government agencies to access the encrypted messages. Does this include GnuPG and other encryption software that is open-source? There is the PGP software, but this is now owned by Symantec and their software is … Read more
Hack Tuesday April 9 2013: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/daily/hack_tue_2013_4_9.mp3. Listen to this recording of the ABC TripleJ radio show Hack and hear what Malcom Turnbull is planning if the Liberals get into power in 2013. A broadband network using copper wires instead of the Labour proposed fibre to the node that would use a network capable of 100 … Read more