After a few false starts, the government has released its promised legislation to address the ‘going dark’ problem caused by encryption—something that affects more than 90% of the data lawfully intercepted by the Australian Federal …
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Search for news articles about the face identification service and you won’t find much. At one level, that’s curious because it’s about to usher in a potentially far-reaching change to law enforcement and Australian society. …
Q: How many of our politicians have you taken over [to Huawei’s Shenzhen headquarters]? Huawei Australia chairman John Lord: I personally have taken about a dozen over the last seven years. Q: And it’s all …
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump May 13 President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China …
Imagine the scene: you run a large multinational company and you’ve just had US$300 million stolen from your bank account. A few months down the track the government steps in and, to much fanfare, names the …
The first step in solving a problem is recognising that there is one. When it comes to tackling cybercrime, it’s time to admit our approach isn’t working. Our failure is staring us in the face. …
Foreign government efforts to undermine Australian democracy have been making headlines in the past few weeks, but we’re missing things. In announcing new legislation to ban foreign political donations, Prime Minister Turnbull told us: ‘Foreign …
Nick Bryant went close to saying, ‘The emperor has no clothes!’ in his recent Lowy Interpreter article on rethinking of the value proposition of e-diplomacy. Appropriately, the post came to me via my Twitter feed …
The cybersecurity dimensions of the 2017 intelligence review report have been mostly overlooked, but it contains some interesting recommendations, as well as leaving considerable detail still to be worked out. The proposals don’t fix all …