"Notably, Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and University of Melbourne researchers Dr Vanessa Teague and Dr Chris Culnane, have laid out significant concerns with how the planned laws would work in reality.
One of the main problems is that the law would require technology companies and providers to target a single device or small number of devices, but only in a way that does not introduce a “systemic weakness” that impacts all users.
Pfefferkorn argues this will not work in practice.
“If a provider is forced to enable access to a ‘particular service, particular device or particular item of software’, there is a significant chance that the provider’s ‘one-off’ solution in fact will not be limited to the specific device,” she said."
- Date Published:09/11/2018
- Original Publication:ITNews Australia