Labor is dead.
Why does Labor keep destroying any chance of re-election over such stupidity?
They have an overwhelming majority where they could push through all sorts of positive and progressive policy, but instead we end up with internet filters / banning kids from YouTube / backdooring Signal / whatever other dystopian crap they keep wanting to pull.
The short term whinge fest about good policy would be completely forgotten by the next election and you could win the public’s favour off the results of that good policy… But instead all we’ll remember is another attempt to ruin our online experience.
Do something good instead of being cunts ffs.
There’s actually a really good method of analysis that is highly predictive about the actions of classes of people politically.
An election?
historical materialism
Meredith Whittaker, the president of the foundation for widely-used global Signal encrypted messaging app, has said it will shut down the system in Australia if forced to hand over its users’ encrypted data to the country’s political surveillance agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
…raises hand
“You have stored data on your users?”
Yes…
… but that’s OK.Lemme explain…
A Signal user will commonly have the client app installed on their mobile device.
They may also have a second client on a laptop that syncs the same data.
If the user goes on holiday for a week but leaves their laptop behind, it won’t be synced to the laptop.
On return from holiday, the laptop client uses its decryption keys to retrieve the last week’s worth of messages.
I *think* Signal can do this (retrieve cached messages from the Signal servers) for up to 14 days.
That said, the entire Signal cache is encrypted on their servers, and one’s messages are fully E2EE and retrievable only by the user.
(However, one weakness of Signal is that a desktop or laptop client’s cache is stored unencrypted. To secure these, one needs to use full disk encryption at the OS level or higher.)
Your chats… It’s a messenger service. You can set your chats to disappear if you like, but they’re stored until you set them to be deleted (if you do take that option at all).
Plus, they store your user name ect…
When it comes to digital rights we have slowly been heading towards fascist dystopia.
I first stated paying attention when Rudd / Conroy tried to filter the internet. Although IIRC mobile phone Know Your Customer came in post sept 2001.
Since then it’s just been a frog in a pot. Meta data retention, assistance and access, identify and disrupt now the hand your ID to every fucking site/app bullshit posing as a kids social media ban.
It’s always been about the ability to silence dissent.
Fuck our politicians. Enjoying saying that while I can. Probably won’t be long before saying that will get your internet cut off.
Bring back local wireless networks to connect us together and keep the big Yankee tech mobs out of our faces.
It’s happening.
This is what I meant when I said on election night Albo is centre right at best.
Albo is a grub, all of Labor are.
Greens are the only viable left wing party.
Greens don’t do shit. Vic socialists are your friends. They care about the person and the worker.
Don’t be friends with the boss
Greens don’t do shit
They can’t, not enough people vote for them. They have zero teeth, the LNP will vote for this shitty legislation in the Senate, so what are the Greens to do ?
Vic socialists are your friends.
Well, preference them.second. they have even less teeth ffs.
While I’m unhappy about potentially losing Signal, the second half of the article about expanding ASIO’s powers is even more chilling. Most people I know don’t use or care about Signal unfortunately.
Some alternatives:
- XMPP (with encryption explicitly turned ON, we know, not on by default, we know, WE KNOW. THANKS)
- Briar
- SimpleX
True, but that extra layer of difficulty will slough off the tiny percentage of my friends and family that do use Signal. I’ve the knowledge and motivation to use it; most people just want to download an app, make an account and get started
@DisOne @DarkCloud
Albanese govt pushing new laws to expand ASIO’s secret interrogation powers—no longer just “anti-terror”, now targeting “sabotage”, “border threats” & dissent. Jail for not complying or even speaking about it. All this as public anger over war, inequality & repression grows.
There’s a legitimate argument to be had about privacy vs. safety. The police need information to investigate crimes, complete privacy means all crimes go unsolved. It should absolutely require the police put in some legwork, law enforcement shouldn’t be able to be automated, but where in-between the two extremes you draw the line on this issue is subjective.
I don’t want the government to have all the information, and I do want the government to be able to enforce the law. VPN’s are probably where I draw the line, private access to information is a red-line for me. Signal chat is a grey area for me, because it is also a means of accessing information but privacy of association is not something I consider to be important enough for the risks to public safety.
Damn, good thing the internet came along. Crazt how no crimes were ever solved before then, and detectives just sat around hoping people would turn themselves in
Were they ever solved?
From page 25 there is crime clearance rates in Australia for the 2 decades before the internet. Looks like crime was solved before the internet existed.
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/size-crime-problem-australia-january-1987.pdf
- 9/10 murders
- 3/4 serious assaults
- 2/3 rapes
- 1/4 robberies
- 1/8 burgularies
- 4/5 car thefts
- 4/5 frauds
Higher than I thought honestly. I thought it was like 1/4 murders that were solved.
you seem very badly informed in this matter (digital privacy). please do some research, or speak with GPT, even it will tell you you’re convictions are ill founded.
