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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Lock makers enable child predators to keep child vicitms sequestered. They should be banned.
/sarcasm
lol Australia complaining about TOO MUCH security, funny. they should just ban the internet, or better yet, ban computers.
u crazy :O, you wanna kill me or something!
Disconnect from the world... End of Australia...
Just like Mad Max.
GG, it been fun
Just nuke Ausralia - same effect for them, better for the rest of the world.
Let the MAD MAX begin !!
Ive said it before and ill say it again "Why the fuck am i living in australia"
Australia is already located too far from the main lands.. lawl
i feel bad for our mates down under, everything continually getting regulated more and more... they used to be free too...
as for the UK... whatever its over for the empire, seems like a situation like "V" is around the corner...
i do have some old gamer friends from Aus, and they pay outrageous fees for little bandwidth (per GB a month or some other crazy terms if they're lucky) and bad ping, its terrible...
Damn aussies, banning encryption? Thats jsut silly. What will they ban next, whale meat?
Oi, I was rounding up koalas when me mate found this incredible thing. Did you lot know Google can help you find anything? I hope the govnah' don't ban it right quick.
They are working on banning the internet. I hate this stupid government.
Same Anon as above. The Australian government not only allowed, but funded a single company to own *all* the telecommunication exchanges *and* sell internet plans. That company, formally part of the government has been privatized now and since before then they have abused their power, but it's now worse. I pay roughly 95 American dollars a month for what is essentially cable speeds that is slowed down to Dial-Up after we download 25 gigabytes. You can actually get 8 gb a month plans with 2mb/s download speed. Oh and did I tell you to the genii over in Telstra, 1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes, 1 megabyte = 1000 kilobytes, etc.
Sucks for you. I pay the equivalent of 60 US and I get 80GB a month, with cable speeds and reduced to dial-up once it is exceeded. And I am Australian.
Too bad that I get 10 Mb/s and unlimited bandwith.
Australia seems to have all things backwards. If I bought a ferrari to drive and was only allowed to drive it around my house... I'd be pissed.
95US a month for 25gb? Dude, you're being royally screwed. TPG do ADSL2+, 150gb for like 60USD. Change ISPs
Unfortunately, almost all internet plans in australia are like that, extremely expensive for amazingly low speeds or very low bandwidth limits before being dropped to dial up speeds
I live in Hawaii and pay about 38~40$ a month for about 5000kbps download and 1000 kbps upload (essentially 600kB/s dl 100kB/s ul) with no bandwidth limits whatsoever
Phone and 20mbit/s internet without a datalimit for 30 euro's a month (something near $20?).
Gotta love the Netherlands.
LOL I get 10 Mbps with unlimited bandwidh for ~12$ :O And there I thought we have a shitty inets down here...
30 euros is more like $50, these days.
US. 5mbs :(
Sweden. 22mbs :)
Japan. 60mbs :o
Brazil got 35Mbps for $110, 100% unmetered.
We got 100Mbps too, for $278, 100% unmetered of course.
Metered = are for fags.
Oh yeah, and if you don't believe, here you go:
15Mbps:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/534222960.png
35Mbps:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/575944530.png
100Mbps:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/571776125.png
Here in southern parts of Stockholm area, Sweden i have in reality about 44-47 Mb speed for 249 Krona= 37 USD for one month. I pay for 50Mb connection. No limits for download. It is possible to dl for more than 1500 DVDs in a month. As it is now, i can`t complain.
I live in the depths of the Russia and I got 5Mbps for $25 per month. Moscow has much better options.
Italy: 20mb (max you can get from tiscali) 30€\month
They should just ban themselves...that way they won't get in contact with computers or anything else they can't tolerate.
Camera manufacturers aid child predators by allowing them to record their abuse. They should be banned.
.avi's aid in the distribution of video cp, usage of those should be banned as well
You're onto something, but you're motives are wrong. AVI is an awful container, and should be banned anyways.
It would have been already if so many people weren't too poor to upgrade their machines to dirt-cheap quad cores and $100 graphics cards that are "Crysis-ready".
And what about those who create TV and Computer screens? With out the screens no matter how much encrypted data you have, you can't see them.
Screens should be banned. They help child predators.
Christianity has countless images of cp all around world portraying small naked children with wings in broad daylight, calling them "angels".
Christianity should be banned.
"There are legitimate reasons for freedom, but there are also criminal reasons."
Let's just lock everyone up to be safe. After all, you never know what anyone might do unless you stick them in a cell. Just as a precaution, you know? For security and all that. Think of the children!
... People these days make me sick.
People in any age make me sick.
they should lock up the smart people since they know how to encrypt in the first place. duh.
*the new reich begins*
Earth provides gravity that keeps childpornographers on ... errr ... Earth.
Blow up Earth!
Children makes it possible for predators to prey on them in the first place, they should be banned.
The human rights aid child predators, they keep getting past 17 years old and become adult predators, life should be capped... or something.
Children aid child predators by... you know... existing.
...and children exist because women become pregnant and give birth to them, so does that mean (unprotected) sex should be banned or made illegal too?
only between people who can reproduce.
:| Don't tempt them...that's a real possibility here in the States:|
^ Uhh, no it's not. lol Paranoid much?
It is part of one of the health care reforms. Government gains total control over who can make babies. They don't like the genetics of one or both parents involved in a pregnancy? They can order (and administer) and abortion. Prenatal testing shows it will be born handicapped, and therefore a burden on the state and its health services? They can order the unborn thing aborted, saving that government health money for productive citizens.
They also have total control over who raises any and all children, and what they are allowed to be taught.
Under that particular draft of the health care reform, any and all women have to maintain a constant "check" with their government beauract monitors--- or they are never allowed to have children (state forced sterilization to INSURE they won't ever breed).
Straight up. Because, you know, the state is responsible for its citizens health care, so the state gets final say over who is allowed to have children, how many, and with who.
And they will be able to stand on that as law, as the US Supreme Court has ruled many times that the constitution does NOT provide for the right to reproduction, and therefore can be regulated in any fashion the government finds necessary.
They need to stop Australians from reproducing, since that would aid in increasing the victims of child abuse in Australia.
How would that INCREASE the victims?
Astaroth~
More children = more potential victims.
well yeah but from my (lack of?) understanding he's saying that stopping us from reproducing will increase it.
I think you should work your English reading skill a little bit more.
failed english is fail
logical anon is logical.
Whoever wrote this should have a kangaroo jump in through the window and punch him in the face.
australians can suck multiple donkey balls.
they should also make houses and privately owned land illegal since they can hide children or their vile cp and news papers inside them.
Makes me want to get one more, now if only the student discount will move to Canada quicker
I think this is good news.
its already available in canada, just not as widely publicized
Ah it is! off i go
o hai
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/discoverytour/student.aspx?wt.mc_id=can_co-win7launch-en_vanity_student
if only politicians had to resign after making such stupid comments.
i don't know if they realise that the encryption helps their OWN computers. For one thing, the oz cops got counter-hacked when they were infiltrating a hacker's site and arrested one or two suspects so they should really appreciate the extra security that win7 provides to THEM rather than worry about petty things like pedophiles. I for one don't want China, Russia or Pakistan stealing military secrets off our servers and then the next day enjoying a nuclear winter.
But then who would lead us, the poor plumbing joe?
Eh, socialism/government micromanagement...
Mario for President!
you do realize once the computers on and password is inserted it could still be hacked, almost all security programs have this. true-crypt and a few other can make 2 encryption one inside the other to make it impossible to find the other even if you have the drive in operation, i haven't looked at win7s encryption so i don't really know about it.
Welcome to Japan.
i dont get it? are they saying pedophiles can lock their cp now with better encryption or something?
someone explain in layman's term
Yes what they are saying because Microsoft is putting better encryption software in their operating software it makes more accessible to people who want to keep their documents away from prying eyes. It is just a better and easier lock for them to use on their files. The government wants to be lazy and not have to deal with it, so they want to get rid of it.
This is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, I mean they are complaining that they are making too good security? I encrypt stuff on my computer and I don't care what the government says I won't stop.
Using security software from M$ is like hiring sentenced robbers for money transports... ^_^
the most annoying part of having a malware/virus infected computer (for me) was the constant pop-ups of the security software, demanding outrageous sums of money and asking to help, as my computer continued to malfunction.
no, i don't want your help :)
it's like a fireman watching a burning house, smiling and offering his help ONLY if he gets paid by the family.
If you're talking about Antivirus 2009/Antimalware 2009 charging you exorbitant sums of money to "eliminate viruses and other malware" then that "security software" IS the malware.
lol i was just about to say that
Haha, oh wow, last I saw of anything like that must have been what, nine years ago or so? So that stuff still exists, eh? Evidently people are still stupid enough to fall for it.
ATTENTION! YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED WITH 209,000 VIRUSES!!
Anon @ 14:15, at least 7 years here since I've seen it. Back when I used to actually google program cracks... What?! I was 14!
Let's KILL all their koalas instead!
its kangaroo
are you saying australia doesn't have koalas?
i could say, let's KILL all their dingos! and that would also be correct
At least that would protect children, well, babies rather.
Dingos ate your baby!
a dingo ayte moi baybee! Oh noes
Kangaroos kill themselves. They run off open pits and get run over by trucks on the highways all the time.
Same with ostriches... or was it emus... I forget which ones we have here - anyways you drive down some no name road in the outback and some'll run across the bloody road and like a bloody deer stuck in headlights the bastard will fuckin' turn towards you and stop - moving only to shift it's weight from foot to foot unsure whether to go left or right. Probably would've been kinder to kill the damn thing to save it from whatever stupid fate it brought upon itself but I didn't want to damage my car... fortunately I live in Brisbane - I was only goin' out to visit some family - so it doesn't happen oftain.
Astaroth~
Good luck with that one. Koalas are bloody vicious beasts.
Damn right! If anyone invades just they wait 'til we set our trained attack-koalas on 'em! They'll drop like flies!
Lucky, there's a koala retrovirus doing the work for us.
IMO they're called drop bears.
Gun-toting Oz Winnie-the-Poohs?
We're fucked. :|
Koalas and kangaroos did nothig wrong. They should be trained instead (^. ^)
"Should" be trained? Don't you know we Aussies ride Kangaroos instead of cars? We have sexy accents too!
Astaroth~
If being a Lolicon is a crime, then I will be a criminal for the rest of my life.
agreed.
+1
You will be a criminal for fapping to 2d girls.
Shit sucks. :(
Better than getting near the real thing. Who knows where that shit's been, or who's been in it?
agreed
Yeah, totally.
That's hilarious. Of all the haters of MS...that's the most pathetic comment against Windows 7.
They're just bitching because they can't use the freaking computer.
agreed
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... 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.
It is the middle point between Anon and registered user, or so I heard...
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
Anonymous~
As an Australian I - unfortunately - have to agree... T.T
That's really weird it didn't show up so I re-posted... Hmm...
stupid comment by stupid country
You act like idiots are unique to Australia (*) which reveals your own stupidity. However to be fair you're still smarter than most polititions around the world.
* For one thing I don't believe Australia has a "Religious Right" like America - or at least not one that's as large and prominant as it seems to foreigners,
Astaroth~
Astaroth, glad you're here telling these people what is actually going on, but you should really sign in instead of signing Astaroth~. Predominantly we Australians embrace new technology at a rapid rate, and I for one love my win7 64bit. We just have stupid politicians, but so do most countries, so meh.
izu taisa, I wonder what kind of ignorant country you come from. Other than the occasional article flaming Australian residents, what reason do you have to think our country is stupid, just because of a few degenerates who merely over-emphasize what they are spoon fed by the media and the public?
Australia has the religious right ACL (Australian Christian Lobby) and Family First.
These are the clowns who don't support the Clean Feed filter - Because they don't think it would block enough.
Make me a sad koala. :'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
What's that? Those few stupid people aren't representative of all Americans?
Exactly.
Since when did most of the Nazi regime move to Australia? That place sounds so repressed, constant news about it's backwards society. Crime must be high there considering the oppression.
It's less oppression and more incompetence, really.
Sad but true. Also the crime rate is better than say America so yeah...
Astaroth~
I know it sounds bad anon, but don't think we're all like that, or that such things are common belief. Italy recently hosted a mother paying teenagers to rape her daughter, but we don't assume all Italians are like that, do we?
FYI though, where I live at least, we really do have a high crime rate, but it's because we aren't oppressed and don't have much in the way of policing...that and the drinking
But you have to admit, the Labor party governance leaves much to be desired.
Agreed, I still think our government is pretty incompetent in some areas, but overall it could be worse. Especially not fond of K Rudd after promising us $2,500 laptops, then changing it from y10-12 to just year 9, who are now getting shithouse netbooks. They aren't even worth having...
I officially hate Australia. I didn't think any country could get as fucked up as the UK, but damned if they're not proving me wrong every day.
QQ faggot
Awww... I hurt someones widdle feelings. :,(
You all know it's true. Both countries would rather put some fatass in jail for jerking it to lolicon than to actually get shit done by killing a pedophile or two.
Got a dick? Congrats! You are considered less than human in these two countries. Didn't you know all men do is rape an destroy? Silly anon.
EVERYONE is considered less than human EVERYWHERE.
Astaroth~
And I thought it was because of their mascot...
LAWL
that's it LAWL.
too bad being an idiot isn't a crime.. oh wait, i'd be locked up too
NVM!!!!
You comment about America is incorrect. See http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html
That is the original case. It was overturned after a series of appeals - Wiki it.
Yeah, screw Australia, they're all criminals to begin with anyway lol. I like Unit 01's comment about locks, because it makes a good point, that's how pedophiles keep the kids in the first place so why not start there lol. I thought the police had tech that could break keys anyway, psh just one more way to extend there power.
Idiot the majority of Australians are related to people who immigrated here for whatever reason rather than being forced to come here as criminals - not that blood makes you a criminal - so yeah you're just a prejudiced fucktard.
Astaroth~
"If this new product gives paedophiles protection to keep harming children"
This makes me think of some guy whacking some kid with a giant textbook on encryption protocols.
You should know, this is just the few of the latest in Australia's war against internet. They've already censored their internet, having all their internet be filtered at ISP level. This not only created a slower network, but also higher prices.
The only censorship is the ability to demand illegal/objectionable content be removed from servers hosted in Australia and the requirement that ISP's offer free voluntary filtering software (opt-in). There was a push to introduce new censorship laws which would have forced filtering at the ISP level, however, this was dropped after significant objections from ISP's and the failure of a small scale trial.
My internet has not been censored in the least (or I possibly see it that way because I don't have access to everything post-censorship). I haven't come across a depraved act that I cannot immediately watch online...not that I try too much lol.
However, I will agree that we have overpriced and slow internet. I am currently paying $40 a month for 1.5mps speed with 10gb on peak, 100gb off peak, and that is a GOOD plan where I live.
Change providers if possible.
We use Internode (50GB for $50/month).
Who would have thought that our "evil communist" government would be full of "Christo" extremists?
That Conroy guy is a complete moron (Minister for Communications).
I guess the Goverment, the Femo-Nazis and anti-Anime crowd will be hunting me down now.
Yep you're screwed.
dungo ayte my baybee!!!
Astaroth~
"Please think of the children!"... says Big Brother.
This makes me embarrassed to be Australian :P
I agree, so many retarded decisions.
If the Left4Dead censorship wasn't enough now spirit more crap. Watch out Archiving programs, your next... you can help us compress our files.
Embarrassed to be Austrlian? I go to the same university as that idiot :(.
BAN THIS SICK FILTH :)
/Sarcasm
Know what else aids pedophiles? The Nintendo DS...
But seriously, there needs to be some touch screen based eroge....
There is.
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.
Actually the Australian Dollar is currently up to about 91-92c compared to the US Dollar.
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~
i fukken lold
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.
I doubt they remember their own names.
Astaroth~
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.
Well, unsurprising, seeing that the politicians are but a bunch of old geezers who could just barely turn on a computer.
and you can also use the 'hidden partition method' using true crypt :)
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.
And I hope Microsoft tells them too fuck off.
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~
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
Ausfailia, oh you.
What, you mean they don't want me to keep my 7-tan hentay secure and safe?
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?
How It works?
lol ausfailia.
i say we kill every politician older than say 50.
We'd have non left. LOL.
Astaroth~
... and that's bad?
Heh. Queensland university.
The world is filled with so much stupid.
What are you getting at?
Astaroth~
so setting up a password to my computer or to its data makes me a pedophile?
Looks Like I found my reason to upgrade.
Stupidity once again. The tools are always innocent. It's the people that use it for other purposes. I thought the matured, grown-up adults in Australia would surely understand this. Oh my, WHO should flag stupidity as an epidemic.
Humanity would sooner flag INTELLIGENCE as an epidemic. Keep in mind of course that that is coming from a PROUD misanthropist.
Astaroth~
"Pedophile!" has become the new "Witch!" and it's used far more for social control and character assassination than ever for any protection of children from perverts or souls from followers of the Devil.
For that reason alone, we should push back hard as things swing the other way. Not just for "Permission" to read naughty Loli manga but so we could buy a copy of "Hustler Taboo: Children's Edition - bondage special" and mail it to the local Nucking Futz Fundy with a note attached "You have failed at everything." That points out in that one sentence how they supported perverts, liars and criminals who wrapped themselves with the flag and banged the bible and did nothing they promised for them. Right now, all the moralists have going for them is the expansion of various "Protect the Children" laws, they have accomplished nothing and even lost ground in everything else.
And I say, "Enough" to all this stupid enshrinement of children. They aren't innocents in a magical time, they are little adults and the sooner they are treated like that the better.
Yeah give them SOME respect rather than treat them like little fucking retards in the making - if only so that they can be told precautions - due to their elevated position in your mind - and such so they don't need so much protection.
Who let this ignoramus speak.. Clearly.... Facts are not in fashion for this person.
He's not an ignoramus - clearly he's an idiotic arschloch.
Astaroth~
Firewall makers allow computers of pedophiles harder to be hacked. Broad Band providers allow pedophiles to get the child abuse pictures, movies, and whatever faster. Intel and other hard drive maker proposed full disk encryption for SSD. So they all should be held responsible too...>_>
i c, so anyone involved with a computer is technically a criminal, even buying a new comp makes u an associate and therefore a criminal.
Nice 1 Australia, dont stop there go on, ban everything, seriously.
Ironically, im currently pursuing a degree in IT from an Australian uni.
so skill up and beat the encryption you lazy incompetent couchpotato.
Honestly, his boss should read this and consider marking him a redundancy.
"but then we'd have to do stuff... and things - THINGS!"
rrrriiiiiiiiiiiight.
So, I guess the people on the construction business should also be arrested for building walls, doors and locks which could potentially be used to keep kids on dungeons or locked in houses.
And while we're at it, let's also arrest those evil people who makes ropes that could be used by abusers to tie their victims.
Or even better: Let's arrest all men.
Well, some women also are child abusers.
Why not arresting the whole world once and for all?
Also: I love the fact that some people will even agree with crap like this only because of the Microsoft bias...
I agree with the Australian government.
All decryption, firewalls, and passwords should be removed from everything...
Logs into every billionaires computer...
Thanks to the Australian government I'm the world's richest person!
Doctor: We've developed a cure for stupidity...now swallow your bullet.
MS dint give them the Japan ver of windows 7 with moefied themes and sound schemes of nanami and therefore decided to show their dissatisfaction with this.
Emos.
What about thoughts? Ban them too?
Same thing as with copyrasters.
sigh...I have to wonder about some people. Are they just stupid or do they have to work at it.
"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.
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.
so too little security is bad and too much is also bad? fuck off already
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.
The ridiculousness some of these go to is astounding.
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~~
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
Ban yourself from the world - save the children!
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)
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.
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?
Australians are gay.
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!"
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!!!
that's all just a bad joke, right?
The stuff about neutrality? No.
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
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 mean "raped me".
Typo.
Frikking nice reference to Windows 7 outstanding support of touchscreen technology.
real pedophiles use TrueCrypt
I don't know what an encryption key is
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Wow,now all window 7 owner are potential pedo, wow just Wow
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!
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.
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?