14.06.2017 - 05:30 [ Techdirt ]

Australia‘s AG Says Public Will Be Cool With Encryption Backdoors Because They Use Facebook

Hello, false equivalency! Brandis makes statements about the government accessing people‘s private messages (he specifically mentioned Whatsapp and iMessages) and thinks no one will have a problem with it because of what they publicly share on social media. One would hope — for the sake of their own sanity — that Brandis is being deliberately obtuse for the sake of pushing his non-backdoor backdoors. The only other explanation is that Brandis is an idiot who can‘t suss out the difference between private communications and public sharing.