A federal cybersecurity bill, slated to advance through Parliament soon, contains secretive, encryption-breaking powers that the government has been loath to talk about. And they threaten the online security of everyone in Canada. Bill C-26 empowers government officials to secretly order telecommunications companies to install backdoors inside encrypted elements in Canada's networks. This could include requiring telcos to alter the 5G encryption standards that protect mobile communications to facilitate government surveillance. The government's decision to push the proposed law forward without amending it to remove this encryption-breaking capability has set off alarm bells that these new powers are a feature, not a bug.
There are already many insecurities in today's networks, reaching down to the infrastructure layers of communication technology. The Signalling System No. 7, developed in 1975 to route phone calls, has become a major source of insecurity for cellphones. In 2017, the CBC demonstrated how hackers only needed a Canadian MP's cell number to intercept his movements, text messages and phone calls. Little has changed since: A 2023 Citizen Lab report details pervasive vulnerabilities at the heart of the world's mobile networks. So it makes no sense that the Canadian government would itself seek the ability to create more holes, rather than patching them. Yet it is pushing for potential new powers that would infect next-generation cybersecurity tools with old diseases.
It's not as if the government wasn't warned. Citizen Lab researchers presented the 2023 report's findings in parliamentary hearings on Bill C-26, and leaders and experts in civil society and in Canada's telecommunications industry warned that the bill must be narrowed to prevent its broad powers to compel technical changes from being used to compromise the "confidentiality, integrity, or availability" of telecommunication services. And yet, while government MPs maintained that their intent is not to expand surveillance capabilities, MPs pushed the bill out of committee without this critical amendment last month. In doing so, the government has set itself up to be the sole arbiter of when, and on what conditions, Canadians deserve security for their most confidential communications -- personal, business, religious, or otherwise. The new powers would only make people in Canada more vulnerable to malicious threats to the privacy and security of all network users, including Canada's most senior officials. [...]
I was confused at first, because my phone is STILL connected to the network of defence. They obviously have these capabilities already.
And then it hit me, they want to do this to ALL canadians. I always figured part of the reason they could get away with it was because I am a immigrant, I dont have the same rights.
Now they want to do what they did to me, to everyone else. Which makes sense, my partner's phone was tapped, proably to get scraped. But they are a citizen, so I am guessing thats why their phone isnt connected anymore.
After reading this in depth, I am guess that the secret squirrel spy tech capabilities that used to only reside in the NSA or certain Kremlin bureaus, basically the Snowden revelations, is something that all modern "democracies" want for their subjects ahem I mean citizens.
How long do I have to be a member of this forum until I'm not shadowbanned anymore? I have been on the .win and thedonald since the very beginning. It is easily verifiable.
I see what you're writing. Anyway, you can't create new threads until you are a member for a period of time. It's to cut down on bots. You can comment on existing threads though.
I have been a member of this community for a long time. This isn't even a new account, but it is still marked as one. I do not trust the mods around here, this is the same way reddit was right before it went south.
Most of us here were right about Elon. Just sayin.
It would appear that way though early on in Musk's "based era" I would be heavily downvoted for any criticism.
Hopefully we're turning a corner
Lmao, only semi related and ill try not to be "hysterical" about it.
I read about this a few days back.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/29/2216251/ottawa-wants-the-power-to-create-secret-backdoors-in-our-networks
I was confused at first, because my phone is STILL connected to the network of defence. They obviously have these capabilities already.
And then it hit me, they want to do this to ALL canadians. I always figured part of the reason they could get away with it was because I am a immigrant, I dont have the same rights.
Now they want to do what they did to me, to everyone else. Which makes sense, my partner's phone was tapped, proably to get scraped. But they are a citizen, so I am guessing thats why their phone isnt connected anymore.
Lmao, fucking idiot canadians.
After reading this in depth, I am guess that the secret squirrel spy tech capabilities that used to only reside in the NSA or certain Kremlin bureaus, basically the Snowden revelations, is something that all modern "democracies" want for their subjects ahem I mean citizens.
The company to be used for X verification is in israel.
How long do I have to be a member of this forum until I'm not shadowbanned anymore? I have been on the .win and thedonald since the very beginning. It is easily verifiable.
https://scored.co/c/Conspiracies/p/17tKnX4FB2/
I see what you're writing. Anyway, you can't create new threads until you are a member for a period of time. It's to cut down on bots. You can comment on existing threads though.
I have been a member of this community for a long time. This isn't even a new account, but it is still marked as one. I do not trust the mods around here, this is the same way reddit was right before it went south.
There is way, way to little traffic here for the problems of reddit, though there is astroturfing.
I don't trust the mods either, nobody should trust anyone online.
Go check out my link there. I am creating something awesome and it is being blocked on every platform I try to access.
I'll check it out.
I refuse to engage twitter on my "smartphone" at all.
you install native apps on your phone and this is your line in the sand
lol