Kiwicon – The government is your friend
Posted on November 7, 2011
The government is your friend and wants you to be happy.
This is the transcript of a speech given by Thomas Beagle at Kiwicon in Wellington on November 6th, 2011.
Tagged as: censorship, copyright, Customs, DIA, due process, filtering, free trade, Internet, Law Commission, MED, privacy, right to silence, Search and Surveillance, TPP, USA
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Updated: Jailing People for Remaining Silent
The new Search and Surveillance Bill includes provisions to force people who own and manage computer systems to give full access to those systems. This includes the obligation to give up passwords to enable the authorities to access encrypted information.
Of course, this assumes that the person involved actually has the password. It's quite common for someone running a system to not be able to break the encryption used by other users to secure their data. Will the courts understand that? And even if they understand that, will they believe it?