☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>How long till encryption busting is applied to the Aus implementation of the OSA?</p><p>“Aside from <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgeVerification</span></a>, the most controversial aspect of the act is power it gives to <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Ofcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ofcom</span></a> to require <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> firms to install “accredited technology” to ^monitor encrypted communications^ for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/illegalContent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illegalContent</span></a>. </p><p>In essence, this would mean tech companies using <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> to bulk-scan <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/messages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>messages</span></a> on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/encrypted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encrypted</span></a> services (such as <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Element" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Element</span></a>) before their <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a>, otherwise known as client-side scanning (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a>).</p><p>Implementing such measures would undermine the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> of encrypted services by scanning the content of every message and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> to check whether they contain illegal content. </p><p>This has been repeatedly justified by the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> as necessary for stopping the creation and spread of child sexual abuse materials (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CSAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSAM</span></a>), as well as violent <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorism</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Cryptographic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cryptographic</span></a> experts, however, have repeatedly argued that measures mandating tech firms to proactively detect harmful content through client-side scanning should be abandoned.”</p><p>It just keeps getting better, doesn’t it? 🍿</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Straya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Straya</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/secrecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>secrecy</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> <<a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-UKs-Online-Safety-Act-explained-what-you-need-to-know" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computerweekly.com/feature/The</span><span class="invisible">-UKs-Online-Safety-Act-explained-what-you-need-to-know</span></a>></p>