Tag: Vanessa Teague

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Digital vaccine certificates ‘woefully insecure’

Victoria’s COVID-19 digital vaccine certificates are “woefully insecure” and “very easy” to forge in just minutes, according to a number of developers and cryptography experts who have criticised the...

Technology lessons of COVIDSafe must be learned

Posted on   |  by Dr Lesley Seebeck
OPINION: As the government turns its thinking to a vaccination passport or similar, it would do well to learn some of the lessons from COVIDSafe. COVIDSafe illustrates the need...

ABC quietly delays iview login plans, data sharing

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The ABC has delayed the introduction of mandatory logins for its video streaming platform iview, amid concerns the requirement was unlawful and a risk to user privacy through the...

Data61 drops world-class seL4 security team

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The world-leading Australian research team that developed the extremely hard to hack seL4 microkernel has been disbanded by the CSIRO, with staff to be moved to AI projects or...

DTA’s spruiking of Digital ID is unhelpful

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s digital identity program should be “abandoned and redesigned from scratch” according to researchers who last year discovered a significant flaw in the system’s design. The Digital...

Online voting: do it open source or not at all

Posted on   |  by Liam Tung
With the 2020 US presidential election over and the result all but declared – and with the COVID-19 pandemic raging on across the world – online voting seems like...

‘Vague’ digital ID framework is a problem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The framework governing the federal government’s $200 million digital identity program is “very vague” and “counter-intuitive” and more design flaws will likely be found, according to the security researcher...

DTA releases COVIDSafe encryption details

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has finally released details of the encryption process behind its COVIDSafe contact tracing app, but no further information on the server used to store the...