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Jess Telford @JessTelford
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They passed that fucking #AABill anti-encryption law.

We're all fucked.

Why?

Here's a great example: some bright fuckwit at Police HQ thinks
"🤔 Hmm I need to see that person's bank transactions because they might, maybe, possibly a terrorist! (actually I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)...
Hey, Bank; you must insert a back door so I can access their accounts. And you can't tell anyone."

Now there's a huge gaping fucking hole in the fence around our online banking for anyone (not just Fuckwit Policeman #1) to gain access to our bank accounts.
Here's another one: some bright spark is inevitably going to ask Apple to make a back door into their iPhones.
We already know Apple's stance on this (after the San Bernardino shooting where the FBI tried to force them to unlock a phone, but Apple just told the FBI to fuck right off).
If Australia asks the same thing, guess what Apple will do? They'll stop selling the iPhone in Australia!
But the new law means that Apple might never know one of their Australian engineers put a back door into the phone. Ok, makes perfect sense for Apple to just lay off all their Australian employees.
So now we have loads of previously high paid (ie; high tax paying) people out of jobs, and no fucking iPhones. Because our government has the technical understanding of a fucking 1 year old.
It gets better! You know how every time you put your credit card into a website, it'll say "✔️ secure" or "❌ insecure"? That's thanks to a great technology called HTTPS (where the S stands for _Secure_ Transport Layer).
Well guess what? The Australian government can now go to _any_ internet provider in Australia and say: "we need access to those secure pages you're sending."
Oh look; another back door. ON EVERY PAGE ON THE FUCKING INTERNET. Good luck not getting your identity or CC or bank details or personal info or private photos or personal messages fucking stolen.
I need a fucking drink.
And a new country to live in.

I hear Canada is nice..?
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I've always felt there was something wrong / silo'd about the way big companies work, which crippled their ability to grow.

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In my teams which were speciality focused, a culture of "throw it over the fence" naturally emerged - each speciality has a strong silo surrounding them, often with the (well intentioned) blessing of managers ("Don't talk to the developers, you'll break their concentration")
There's a tension between what the individual (maybe even the entire specialist team) wants to achieve and what the business wants to achieve, eg; "perfectly architected, bug free code" vs "grow monthly recurring revenue".
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Ever see a conf get shut down & wonder "🤔 But it was running so smoothly! Why'd they stop!?"

Shit umbrellas.

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The organisers were shit umbrellas protecting the attendees/speakers/etc from all the shit flying at the conference.

And there's a lot of shit flying around!
- Sponsors pull out
- Speakers don't show up
- A/V equipment breaks
- The recording fails
- Swag doesn't turn up
That fire hose of shit gets focused on the organisers.

Great organisers take it all on the chin (ewww), do their best to mitigate the impact of each little thing, and keep the show running.
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It's only been a week, but I've already started to realise just how badly even mildly toxic work environments can drag one down over 3 years.
I'm proud that I was able to shield that toxicity from my team, but that meant I was the one absorbing all of it.

Just a little bit here, an offhand comment there, a dismissal of my skills on that day, and a lack of support from managers on another. Little things.
While it was happening, it was "Just another day", nothing big to report, no one was upset, no arguments (there _were_ those days, of course, but they were rare), it wasn't remarkable.
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No, not really. Not at all. I’ve seen quite a few tweets linking to this story. The Assistance & Access Bill certainly has problems, yes, but the way it’s characterised here is way off mark. In two key ways, I think... #aabill
First, it’s not “do whatever else it takes to decrypt subjects’ messages”. There’s a slab of stuff about having to be “reasonable, proportionate, practicable, and technically feasible”, and considering the likely business impact on the provider and wider public interests. #aabill
Obviously how that would pan out in practice remains to be seen, so expect some lively legal action for that! #aabill
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And now @WilkieMP is up to speak on the #aabill aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis…
It is a bad idea to build a known vulnerability into encryption software says @WilkieMP To design a vulnerability, a weakness, access, is an invitation to wrongdoers to find the key and eavesdrop or see what people thought was a secure communication #aabill
What will our security partners and our business partners think of that? I think it is a reasonable conclusion to draw that there will be concern in other countries and business with operations in Australia with vulnerabilities in our ICT.
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1/ Amid Twitter maybe getting rid of the "like" to promote "better dialog" and certainly giving safe haven to nazis and other extremists, a rant:
2/ You probably noticed how, people came forward to say that they'd reported the bomber for violent threats, and Twitter (as always) did nothing and (as always) now apologizes but (as always) won't say how they'll better handle. They won't, and I'll tell you one big reason why.
3/ to address complaints about threats and "improve the dialog" Twitter introduced the "quality filter." You see fewer threats and hate speech. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S LESS OF IT.
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The Australian government has released the draft Assistance and Access Bill 2018, legislation intended to help law enforcement agencies bypass encrypted communications. homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consulta… I’ll live-tweet my reading of it in this thread. #aabill
The Bill is a messy 176 pages, because it amends a bunch of Acts. The Explanatory Document is 110 pages. There’s also an Industry Fact Sheet, a document about Limitations and Safeguards, and three documents about how the search warrants will work. Much joyous reading! #aabill
I’ll start with the Explanatory Document, because it explains (der!) what the legislation is meant to do, and points to the relevant bits in the Bill. It’s also less likely to make my brain explode. #aabill
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