The new bill passing through parliament in Australia, would force app developers to put backdoors in apps intended for communication that use SSL to encrypt communications from one person to another. One of the ways #AABill gets access to systems is by commandeering employees of companies to write backdoors. But they’re not even allowed to tell their employer, or face jail time. If software developer is forced to code a backdoor, other devs on the project are going to find out even though he’s under gag order because they can read the code too. The government will have to contact either all devs on a project they want to be compromised with software backdoors, or they would have to arrest every software developer in Australia and destroy the IT industry in this country. This will lead to the death of the Australian Information Technology industry, which is already in decline, and is therefore vulnerable at the moment. Would open source software follow suit? There are many open source chat apps that are encrypted. Software such as Signal, Xabber, Linphone and Telegram. All of these would not be forced to add backdoors would they?
A person downloading the source code could just run diff on the new and old code and find the changes. if they were a good programmer, they would be able to remove the offending code and enjoy a safer application. The bill has passed in Parliament, this is not a good sign for Information Technology innovation in this country. Apple has threatened to leave this country, this would be a blow to industry and employment in Australia. The bill allows access by law enforcement to a network, but it does not allow the network administrators knowledge of the intrusion, this means that there would be a backdoor created into the network, that would be hidden and the people using and administering it would not know about it at all. That could lead to security issues, if the methods used to make use of the hidden back door is leaked and abused by malicious computer users around the world. How are we going to protect against that? This could lead to a massive data breach, and it would be the fault of the government who thought of this in the first place.