As I understand it Bazz is correct, real encryption can't easily be broken.

I think there are other security vulnerabilities and built in backdoors to gain control over smartphones, tablets and PCs etc.

So many built in apps and components make them run such as chosen keyboards.

Do an online search for 'X agent pegasus'.

Sacrificing privacy for the sake of someone else's life may e superficially attractive, but it would have unintended consequences. If we introduce security vulnerabilities, hackers will exploit them. Note "will" rather than "might" - those who take the latter view are overly optimistic!

Where there's a threat, police and ASIO should break encryption when they can - but they should not rely on being able to do so, and they certainly shouldn't force the public to only use insecure software.

"What is going on with this chat by pollies?" "..quantum computing".

Australian of the Year 2018 has a Centre for Quantum Computer Technology. "..Since then she has established a large research group dedicated to the fabrication of atomic-scale devices in silicon and germanium using the atomic precision of a scanning tunneling microscope. Her group is the only group world-wide that can make atomically precise devices in silicon: they have developed the world’s first single atom transistor and the thinnest conducting doped wires in silicon."

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If police are able to crack or backdoor programs the terrorists will simply communicate another way.

We have given up too much in the name of war on drugs and terror.

More people die from being homeless than by terrorists in Australia,
let's have a war on homelessness.

The best way to encrypt a message is when nobody recognises that a message even exists. Anyone who is serious about hiding information won't have a file named "break-me" standing out, just ordinary files such as photos, movies, executables, game-data and voice, all operational so nobody could suspect anything. Obviously, one would also use their own encryption method, rather than some off-the-shelf one.

If you want to catch the terrorists and criminals who make our life miserable, they can all be found in Canberra, parliament house. They never cared about our safety, only for their own interests and remaining in power, so they invented the "terror" scare in order to divert our attention away from them.

It's ordinary people that they are after, who do not have anything as serious to hide, perhaps only small secrets, and are too innocent to use sophisticated encryption methods. It's only them they want to scare.

Right it is called Steganography.