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by Youden 1554 days ago
The Access and Assistance Bill doesn't prevent anybody from offering end to end encryption.

The media coverage was very "sky is falling" but the reality is that it only requires you decrypt content to which you already hold the keys or to which you can obtain the keys without compromising the security of untargeted users.

See Section 317ZG of the law: http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta1997...