On 4/7/19, Paul Templeton <paul@coffswifi.net> wrote:

You can now get a report from the AU Government on there assessment of 'going dark' They recognize there are legitimate reasons to using Tor...

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Law_Enforceme... https://www.aph.gov.au/~/media/Committees/le_ctte/NewandemergingICT/report.p... A few positive sentences buried in a wholly negative paper outlining how governments and agencies are well against crypto tools, hardware, software, networks... and doing all they can in that regard... hardly amounts to any such recognition. Never mind that AU, NZ, UK are all busy right this very moment signing "laws", which history proves are but "creepy featurism", against freedom of speech. In fact, the words "speech" and "journalism" do not occur at all in their paper. Any words like "freedom" "privacy" and "rights" were largely mooted by their desires to instruct you as to what is "legitimate" or not, and to "balance" and "resolve" those for you in their final solution to all such things. There's a full tilt worldwide top secret and surfaceweb assault going on crypto, freedom, speech, privacy, etc. It's going to take a LOT more action than armchair submissions to their committee papers to even begin to fight back against that. Just like the global surveillance rollout... now that they've censored the Global Surface Web with the help of their Corporate Friends, and thereby forcibly pushed the next Christchurch into happening on Tor... let's see how long Tor and crypto holds up to that. That's their game. Expect it.