Big telcos Telstra and Optus have focused on how the Federal Government's encryption bill would affect their businesses in their submissions made to the public consultation on the draft bill, rather than the wider ramifications of the legislation.

Victoria's information commissioner Sven Bluemmel has raised the possibility that a one-off hack, created to satisfy a demand by law enforcement that access be provided to a particular device, could well end up being re-used with modifications, resulting in a situation which the draft encryption bill has pledged to avoid - systemic weaknesses.

The South Australian Department for Education is to deploy a SaaS solution from software applications, digital solutions and managed services company Civica across schools and educational institutions in its jurisdiction.

Telecommunications networking equipment, software, and services provider Ciena has been selected by Hawaiki Submarine Cable to upgrade technology to increase capacity on the cable connecting Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

The decision by Google to quietly effect sign-ins for users of its Chrome browser has caused at least one prominent technologist, John Hopkins University cryptographer Matthew Green, to stop using the browser.

In what sounds rather eerily like a Chinese initiative, Apple has indicated that it will monitor information about how its mobile devices are used in order to compute a "device trust score" when a purchase is made from its various stores.

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