Australia: “Windows 7 Aids Pedophiles”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 28, 2009 12:36 JST
- Tags: Australia, Encryption, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Microsoft, Police, Technology, Windows
The Australian government is accusing Microsoft of protecting child abusers by including powerful encryption in Windows 7.
A member of the Australian government working with “cyber-safety” is outraged that Microsoft is including powerful encryption in Windows 7, better known for its touchscreen support:
“If this new product gives paedophiles protection to keep harming children I would be extremely disappointed. I would expect the company to take moves to rectify this.”
They seem unaware Bitlocker was actually introduced in Windows Vista.
A “cyber-law expert” with the Queensland University of Technology explains how Microsoft is aiding wicked lolicon in vile acts of cyber-sodomy:
“Microsoft has long been criticised for inadequate security – now it has implemented a robust security system that will bring problems along with its good.
There are legitimate reasons for encryption, but there are also criminal reasons.
Ten years ago very few people had access to those encryption devices, now it is becoming extremely mainstream. With so many people using Microsoft, within years most people will have access to this technology.”
He demands laws which would allow the state to lock up evil encryption users who fail to share their keys with the state:
“They need to act quickly and legal powers to force criminals to surrender decryption keys or face a possible jail term.
These laws would help police, law enforcement agencies and anti-terrorist police.”
Australian police themselves can already obtain warrants to secretly install keyloggers, but cannot jail people for refusing to reveal encryption keys – they seek laws emulating those of the UK, where refusal to decrypt information for police is a serious crime.
Under the UK’s draconian Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, police potentially have the power to lock up people who refuse to hand over keys to data they believe to be encrypted, but just how this works when encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise is something courts have yet to establish.
Americans too find their Constitutional rights subverted when it comes to encryption – in 2009 a judge ordered a man to turn over his encryption keys, ruling after a lengthy series of appeals that this did not constitute self-incrimination, which is protected against by the Fifth Ammendment to the US Constitution.
Thwarted snoopers will doubtless howl all the harder when steganography, where it is all but impossible to demonstrate that encrypted data is even present, becomes more accessible.
Technology also exists which allows a any number of dummy keys to be given to authorities, capable of unlocking fake files in order to thwart such laws, whilst allowing the real encrypted file to go unmolested.
Both of these technologies pose severe problems to such laws, although it seems unlikely this will discourage further attacks on civil liberties by those keen to extend their powers by appealing to child protection hysteria.
However, Microsoft has previously been caught hiding backdoors in its encryption for the benefit of government snoopers, so it appears allowing Microsoft to become the vendor of choice for such technology might actually be their best hope…
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More proof of how bat shit insane the Australian government is
They should ban REAL locks.
I mean, all those sick pedos can lock those poor children in without any chance of escape!
10$ for 5MB/s down and 300 kb/s up, can go up to 5 MB if someone connects from the country(MAN <3)
and i live in a country which is shit
If no one else knew Mccain and the repub...the Corporate Hooker Party are trying to remove net neutrality and remove restrictions that would allow telecoms to bend us over and price **** us.
They're going off on the Obama taking our freedoms so we have to take all of our freedom and liberty and sell them off to private corporations to keep them safe routine.
McCain's 2009 (or 2010) Internet Freedom Act will strip net neutrality.
We have to give our public rights to corporate interests because if we do things in the name of the people that would sound awfully like power to the people and the next thing you know you have Stalin and Mao coming back from the dead to pull a coup.
Good news Australia with Republibitches as the architects for the new internet, your internet will look like a flawless example of awesomeness compared to ours if that bill goes into effect.
Remember the internets like a highway made out of a series of tubes and in communist fascist socialist countries the internets for everyone rich and poor everyone has the same rights and priviledges that can't be taken away.
Eff that commie crap "Ccccooommraaade!" This is AMERICA Land of the JESUSFISH! The American internet needs to be capitalist where the only people allowed on the highway are rich pricks.
If you support net neutrality you support Satan, Mao, Obama, and Hitler roasting the baby Jesus...why do you hate Jesus?
Ps I know it's been up for a while, but they've been debating the bill recently and it might come for a vote soon...certain shows have pointed it out.
Down side of net neutrality is that:
a) The government has put in a rider so that it all goes through government approved access points, to make sure that things are moving correctly, and
b) government is granted the right to inspect all data on the net, without need of suspicion or warrants, and can do anything it wants with the data.
In other words, they HAVE to route all traffic through government monitor stations which get to look at all the data--- and the data cannot be encrypted without the GOVERNMENT having the keys to examine it (or, you know, big felony charges).
And that's not even getting around to the basic consume issues--- such as the networks aren't allowed to protect themselves from bandwidth hogs, etc.
Nothing good can come out of either set of legislature concerning the net, thanks to the little riders and extra legislative bits tagged into them.
What the fuck is wrong with this country?
Why do we have to be subjected to 24/7 government spying into our daily life just because some soccer bitches are too frightened of scary brown people overseas?
Just because some dumb gullible hicks are pissing themselves over something that has less of a chance of killing them than the beer that they drink, cars that they drive, or weather patterns in the areas that they live in doesn't mean that we should all allow ourselves to be put under the lens of a camera and be monitored 24/7.
Sure let's shred the document giving us our freedoms to protect ourselves from the boogeyman. We have to burn the bill of rights and the liberties enshrined in it to protect ourselves from the terrorists that want to take our liberties...GENIUS!
Question: You don't want the government watching you 24/7? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE!!!
Answer: It'll create departments in the government that will monitor what everyone says, does, use it to extrapolate what those people believe, and either "correct" them or use data mining to pin something on them to imprison them. "He disagrees with international policy AND domestic policy! ELIMINATE ELIMINATE!"
Australians are gay.
I don't think an apology would be enough, Microsoft is gonna be sued by Australia now.
They have clearly sided with the pedophiles and the weird japs, just look at the new W7 pet.
See, thats why I don't like this country sometimes, they bloody ban anything even games like LFD2 WTF!!!! That country fucked everything up FFS!!!!! BAN THIS BAN THAT HOW ABOUT SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
On a side note senators are debating net neutrality.
The republi..."THEM" are saying that if we don't get rid of net neutrality, Obama will take away our internet freedom. To keep internet freedom we have to privatize the internet. Wonder if we'll get the Australian model -_-
Seriously everything that comes up now becomes Axis vs Allies, God vs Satan, Jesus vs Hitler.
Remember if we don't remove restrictions on how telecom companies can abuse their customers we'll live in SOOOOOVVVVIIIIEEEETTT FRAAAAAANNNNNNNCCCEEE WeeeeooooWEEEEOOOOOOOHHHHH!
Mcain's 2009 Internet Freedom Act -_-
Net neutrality is being pushed by Julius Genachowsky, last time I checked, who happens to be appointed by Obama TO the FCC.
But don't worry about that man, worry about the head of White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. His idea of fun is to monitor everyone's comments on websites, and if they are "objectionable" the website and you will be held responsible for them.
1984 anyone?
It's illegal to export encryption software above a certain strength from the US because those damn terrists might use it to plot attacks on the country or something. Encryption paranoia is hardly unique to Australia, and an entire country is not represented by a few idiots in its government (this also includes the idiots who want to filter the internet, or who refuse to give us an R rating for games)
Ban yourself from the world - save the children!
Just use TrueCrypt for that. No one needs Microsoft
Australia....if you can't take it, then unhook yourselves from the world and shut up.
When will this hypocrites and ignorant bastards learned that whatever happened is always human factor and not to put blame on the technology created. Geez~~
The ridiculousness some of these go to is astounding.
What about thoughts? Ban them too?
Same thing as with copyrasters.
"Please don't lock your computers and never encrypt your files so we can easily trespass your privacy and check your PERSONAL data."
Regards,
Your busybody Australian politician.
I'm curious as to what they would do do against a person who has their computer encrypted with several forms of biometrics?
Those people would tear an eye out of his head and cut his hand off for retina scan and palmscan/finger prints.
Pff you're obviously not a politician - they're not that polite - a politician is more likely to say:
"Don't lock your computers and never encrypt your files so we can easily gang assrape your privacy and mess around with your personal data - also give us the keys to your house because we'll need to get into your house - hey you got anything nice in your fridge? And how's your TV? It any good? Oh! And your car keys - you know how expensive oil is nowdays?!
Regards,
Your new god.
P.S. Report to your local re-education camp from the 01/12/09 to the 22/12/09"
Astaroth~
what type of idiotic anon signs off with a name...
Astaroth~
One that's too lazy to sign up but doesn't want to be some comment and run cunt.
sigh...I have to wonder about some people. Are they just stupid or do they have to work at it.
No, trying to watch everything at once is BS. Having a massive database of all of every persons info in one place with any bureaucrat having access it it is dangerous.
so too little security is bad and too much is also bad? fuck off already
I have one question:
Only the dumb one becomes politician, or when they become politician, they turn dumb?
When you become a politician you whore yourself out to polls.
Then you fit your agenda with the polls.
If you do something unpopular...SPIIIIINNNNNN!!!!
Bush could outspin Gurren Lagann. His malfeasance will pierce the heavens!
Oh god, that needs to be photoshopped now...
This surveillance society the people in power try to con us into accepting is fucking bullcrap.
The terrorist surveillance program? The people running it spent most of their time listening to soldiers phone sexing their wives and outing men/women calling their gay lovers.
You think that Britain hasn't had people look through their database of everything on everyone living in the country for recreation?
I wouldn't be surprised if shit has happened in the surveillance states where massive amounts of personal information from credit cards/bank info to phone records have been improperly used to commit financial crime.
that's all just a bad joke, right?
The stuff about neutrality? No.
weeehhhh.. these legislators are freakin stupid.. If a puppy were to hump a kid I wont be surprised they they will give the poor pup a death penalty. XD
Trust me, if any well equipped agency really wants to see what is on your drive they could have it cracked with little to no effort. If you encrypt your drive to that degree, the FBI might ask for it but if you don't supply it it'll still be cracked quickly. Just cost a bit more money to do so and if your guilty of any crime it'll look even worst on you. If your dealing with sensitive material on a work computer usually they are well protected(not all the time but usually) but take it home and they are free domain for anyone with basic computer knowledge. It probably is not even the toughest encryption but gives users at the very least some protection if they so need it.
Of course criminals might take advantage of it giving them the false veil of being safe when in reality its not.
i didn't know that...
air aids pedophiles as well too! omg!
Wow,now all window 7 owner are potential pedo, wow just Wow
what a big cry baby
I live in western australia we have different law's and actions than the eastern states and every time we hear a child nearly got abducted they find out later its the immigrant people that come here lol past 5 years everything went up in crime and PEDO'S since we are getting quite abit of boat people as well and everyone floods here for some reason dont know why i dont like being here boring hot shitty internet cant look at a immigrant or they say what u looking at and kick ya head in lol western aus have LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of japanese people flooding here and they live in perth wich is pretty expensive wail all the residential people are being forced out to the outer suburbs drive further to work no adsl in some area's and we just let all the immigrants moving in and shove us outa here lol ( I WANNA GET OUTA HERE) !!!! ps easten states suck dingo shit.
Yeah, disclosing decryption keys will help the police and so on, just as installing cameras in every citizen's bedroom, living room and bathroom will. After all, this is where most drug dealers hide their stuff.
Everything in the Australian government is about pedophiles and their wicked ways isn't it?
I propose this: all men promote rape because they have penises. As long as a man has a penis, he poses a threat to the integrity of the children and would-be raped people. The only solution is that all men give up their penises. We must cut off men's penises.
Well, who wants to start with those in the Australian government?
I do not imagine I've ever observed a new blog using this several responses on there!
Dr. Hack: HACKSSSSSSSSSS
While the American government continues to provide bail outs for companies such a General motors people often forget how General Motors is Americans foremost manufacturer of these things called automobiles, machines which aid criminals by providing them with an easy means to quickly escape from the scene of their crimes. Just look how many high speed police chases there are! If these "automobiles" where banned, law enforcement would have a MUCH easier time of it.
the all point of encryption is privacy and security... but those retards don't understand.
Aaaaand how old is Madobe Nanami?
have the aussies heard of truecrpyt?
Erm...by complaining about this, aren't they also complaining about how much more beneficial it is for them too to use such encryption for themselves? We know all governemnts like to hide things from the public themselves those conniving bastards. Orwells's 1984 wasn't suppose to be a blueprint you know.
Moralistic Facist Governments; it's ok for them to hide their stuff and take our money, but it's not ok for us to hide our stuff and take their money?
Might aswell just label all cititzens 'Cut Throat Joe' and 'Rapey Daily Dave' and lock everyone up.
Is it me or are some countries that has some history involving the UK seems to be reverting back to days of old where burning people at the stakes for the hell of it was natural?
real pedophiles use TrueCrypt
Frikking nice reference to Windows 7 outstanding support of touchscreen technology.
Dumb australians, when Windows had lack of security, they blamed that it allowed hackers to easily overcome it. Now when their security is great, another problem crops up. Why don't the fookin Aussies just get Macs for all I care... fucktards
I mean "raped me".
Typo.
Nowdays I don't consider a 12yo and up a child anymore.
HECK back in 80's a 13yo wanted sex with me, she almost RAPE ME! No fucking kidding!
I don't know what an encryption key is
What a bunch of computer-illiterate morons. TrueCrypt is easy to use, unbreakable, has a great manual, and supports steganography. It's open code, been around for nearly a decade, and it's free.
And it stinks of a fascist police state to make it possible to lock someone up for an indeterminate period simply because he forgot a password. I mean, nobody ever forgets a password, right? Given the conditions in most jails, this sounds like torture to me, screw waterboarding.
I don't mean to be Cap'n Obvious here, but 99% of the population falls within the category of "computer illiterate morons". I recon most pedos don't even know what encryption is, let alone how to use it effectively.
Besides, TC is easy to crack unless you have a good password and preferably few keyfiles scattered around various external storage devices and your HDD.
I've been dealing with the said illiterate morons long enough to know that their brain isn't capable of processing the simple fact that YOU DON'T USE YOUR BIRTHDAY AS YOUR FUCKING PASSWORD.
Why are they making such a big deal over this? Is Australia that full of pedophiles or something?
Dumb Auzzies you have been able to do the same thing except even worse in Linux and OSX for years.
Actually just about every posix compliant OS can have a very encrypted file system.
Jeeze whats next they'll ban live cds because they allow you to visit places with out a trace?
Really we need to fight any of this lets give up freedom for the children shit Hitler got started with going after Jews and Pedos,
Then he moved to communist sympathizers,Gypsies,and then went to anyone who spoke against the government.
Hey Goldwin's rule does apply to everything.
No wonder OZ got a colony dropped on it During Gundam 0078.
Australia home of the criminally insane who think existence of computer is to house child victims photo. Do Australia know that all children will age and grow into adults someday why not protect the adults too.
BitLocker you say?
What is this Microsoft faggotry?
We already had TrueCrypt, which is over 9000 times more powerful, and provides plausible deniability, which makes it impossible to prove an encrypted partition even exists, given that you take the right steps.
You can even be as crazy as taking the key file, splitting it into a hundred parts, encrypt each with a different key and store them all in various places.
This as a backup, so you can just destroy your everyday copy of the key (which is still encrypted itself) without losing your data forever.
Oh, and get this: you can use it in XP, Mac OS X, Linux, etc
truecrypt.org
Can it be more awesome than this?
lol at BitLocker being 100% obsolete on release.
Insightful anon is insightful. :)
Thanks for the info.
There are encryption schemes that boot up when you start. They essentially allow for more than one password to be entered at start up, with the secondary password decrypting only parts of the local disk, and some even have the option of completely formatting the hard drive, though partial decryption is the easiest way to fool Luddites and fossilized blowhards.
The more the "politicians" pander to the "moral guardians" the more protection schemes will pop up. This is a Lensmen arms race, except the politicians are still furry apes.
Calling them furry apes would be an insult to apes these idiots have not even made it to the stage of lemurs.
Oh wow, I didn't know, that having working security measures was that bad... I don't think the locks on our doors are necessary anymore either - they might be helping pedophiles too! OMGZORZ! DOWN WITH THE SECURITY!!!
ehhhhh....
*facepalms*
Seriously, this is probably one of the most fucked up reasonings I've ever seen.
What, no one's pointed out the ignorance displayed by "With so many people using Microsoft, within years most people will have access to this technology?" TrueCrypt's available on multiple versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and this moron is saying that they'll have access to heavy-duty drive encryption in years? They have it now, and Windows has had it for years! For free!
They don't realise you can install other software on your PC.
Our politicians don't know anything, let alone how to use a computer, or god forbid installing software.
No, I'm pretty sure that's all a polichicken will be able to remember: their names.
It's the only thing of use they are is stating clearly into a camera to say, aside from the parrot speech someone else wrote for them to say.
I doubt they remember their own names.
Astaroth~
and you can also use the 'hidden partition method' using true crypt :)
Well, unsurprising, seeing that the politicians are but a bunch of old geezers who could just barely turn on a computer.
And I hope Microsoft tells them too fuck off.
Why the hell is Microsoft even selling Windows 7 to fucking Australia? Microsoft is a multimillion dollar corporation. I think them NOT selling Windows 7 to Australia wouldn't be so bad considering the fact that the Australian dollar is so much weaker than the weakening dollar. Besides, it's not like the Australian government can do anything about an OS embargo.
Sweet! If MS stops selling Operating systems here, it means i have legal grounds to pirate it off the net! Free windows for all!
Astaroth~
Actually the Australian Dollar is currently up to about 91-92c compared to the US Dollar.
Know what else aids pedophiles? The Nintendo DS...
But seriously, there needs to be some touch screen based eroge....
There is.
i fukken lold
Australia sucks now, im moving.
I'm honestly thinking about doing the same thing. Not that I don't love Australia, we just have fucking stupid politicians and look like retards to the rest of the world because of a few idiots.
Canada, here I come!
Wasn't Canada going after people owning loli material the other day? Why would you want to go there?
They might as well get to the root of the problem and ban all forms of communication and interaction among people. Problem solved, right?
What, you mean they don't want me to keep my 7-tan hentay secure and safe?
Where is the real article of this?
What isn't real about this? If you mean a source, read the article more closely.
THIS IS MADNESS!
No, it's the Australian government.
THIS IS ASTAROTH~!
NOOOOO, i am Astaroth~!!!
There has been encryption software on the internet for years now, for free even. What's the big deal now with Windows' BitLocker? Did they just discover this or what?
Aussie pollies are all old old men so... yeah yeah they DID just discover it...
Astaroth~
Ausfailia, oh you.
This story made me lol so hard because I go to Queensland Tech and they gave me free copies of windows 7 for being an IT student. :D
The pollies in Australia are mostly afraid of new technology and change.
So I'm not surprised to be honest.
As an Australian I - unfortunately - have to agree... T.T
As an Australian I unfortunately have to agree... I'm feelin' kinda depressed right now.
Astaroth~
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
Astaroth~
Seriously though, I don't quite see the point of posting anonymously, and then signing all your comments.
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
Anonymous~
It is the middle point between Anon and registered user, or so I heard...
That's really weird it didn't show up so I re-posted... Hmm...