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The relevant quotes from the article (my emphasis):

"The NSW government will introduce laws to confiscate unexplained wealth from criminal gangs and ban the use of encrypted devices as part of long-waited reforms to combat money laundering and organised crime."

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“These reforms will make it an offence to possess these kinds of devices and allow us to better target high-risk individuals from using them to orchestrate crime.”

im getting a whiff of civil asset forfeiture coming from this. thats not a good plan, its a horrible way to encourage cash harvesting from unbanked noncriminals.

there are particular things, such as ghost phones, digital currency, and origin of revenue that sound like issues to address mentioned here as well

Isn’t an iPhone an encrypted device? Thought I read stories of police agencies trying to hack their way in…. How about android phones? Are there any graphics or compression algorithms that could be used as encryption?
HDMI, Thunderbolt, USB-C, DP all use encryption. And yes, Android devices. Any device that can run Windows 11 has a TPM. I wouldn't be surprised if a USB-C cable was involved in DRM crypto operations.

Hard disk drives and SSDs. All modern games consoles, televisions, set-top boxes. Those Keurig coffee machines with DRM coffee capsules and all of their ilk, possibly inkjets and their cartridges. Car key fobs. The list goes on.

They're literally criminalising math...

What's next, criminalising the act of speaking in languages the police don't understand?

>They're literally criminalising math...

Well, in the sense that criminalizing stabbing someone is the same as "criminalising hand movements".

There are better defenses to be made for encryption than "but it's math".

Yeah, because this was obviously my best-effort attempt at defending encryption, rather than simply mocking the arrogance of the parasitic bureaucrats who assume it's even possible (let alone achievable) to put the genie of encryption back in the bottle.
>Yeah, because this was obviously my best-effort attempt at defending encryption

It obviously was your "best-effort", since it was your only effort. The comment didn't include any other.

And whether you meant it just as sarcasm or not, many put it forward sincerely, as if it matters.

So, I take it I'm not allowed to use encrypted connections to do internet banking?

Unless I'm mistaken, it's like they're working for a scam technical support racket who call the phone at midnight and talk in a foreign accent.

Finally, a ray of light in the fight against HTTPS.
The combination of ignorance and authoritarianism never ends well.
Its mean 'crypto phones', or custom firmware mobile phones with their own voice, chat and messaging system. The most recent busted operation, Anom, was actually run by Law Enforcement who backdoored the devices and recorded all the calls and messages. A very successful operation.

I am assuming there are several actual real not-run-by-the-police systems that they are referring to, I can see the NSW government introducing some really silly legislation that turns out to accidentally criminalize ios and android. Oops.

What? They are banning Signal? How reasonable. haha