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by incompatible 2293 days ago
I doubt that he imagined that he could write a law that would force the encryption algorithms to yield to the ASIO. It was all about using a big stick to force people to help break encryption, by inserting back doors etc.

Sure he was a lawyer and banker and probably never should have been involved with things like encryption and the NBN, but that's politics for you.