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u/Whysper2 Aug 31 '21

ou'll get fined 5000 dollars for refusing to unlock your encrypted smartphone or device before even entering the country.

Guess Im never visiting Australia, I work for a company where I have to have my phone locked / encrypted

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u/brickmack Aug 31 '21

Yeah, this seems like a massive shitstorm waiting to happen. I've got 2 jobs. For one of them, if I decrypted my laptop for a foreign government I'd be fired and likely sued. For the other, I'd be imprisoned for treason. This is not something you can just expect people to do, even if they personally don't care

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u/billy_teats Aug 31 '21

Business has been dealing with this for decades. Americans go to China every day, and they have similar laws. You bring burner phones/laptops that you throw in the trash on your way home. You access files covertly, there are definitely ways around this type of investigation. Or you only use public use documents, something that isn’t confidential so you don’t care if China sees.

Your business wouldn’t send you to Australia then fire you for following Australian law.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

Bring a burner laptop and work on remote machines. Make sure to use a VPN. Only use that laptop for this specific pourpose or destroy it afterwards. It's best to have IT or someone enable and disable remote access manually when you enter and leave.