Schneier slams Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans

ronjor · Oct 9, 2019

By Stilgherrian October 9, 2019

Governments breaking encryption is bad, and 'will get worse once breaking encryption means people can die', says one of the world's leading security experts.
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guest · Oct 23, 2019

ACSC confirms it killed off CyberCon whistleblower talks
Head of the ACSC Rachel Noble says all speakers were 'known public advocates for unauthorised disclosure'
October 23, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/acsc-confirms-it-killed-off-cybercon-whistleblower-talks/

Rachel Noble, head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), has fessed up to the worst kept secret in Australian cybersecurity circles, that it was indeed the ACSC that had two speakers dumped from CyberCon earlier this month.

"I made that decision," Noble told Senate Estimates on Wednesday evening.
"The advice that I made the decision on, was a proposal for Dr Dreyfus and Mr Drake to ... have a panel with Edward Snowden that was the first proposal. At that point my judgement was based on, I guess, a reputation of all of those speakers that they are known public advocates for unauthorised disclosure or the leaking of classified information outside of legitimate whistleblowing or lawful whistleblowing schemes."

Noble added the talks were not "consistent with the objectives of the conference which was actually about cybersecurity and helping Australians raise their awareness and technical knowledge about cybersecurity issues", and could express views not in line with Australian law, processes, and values.
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