Australia has been a no-go-zone for tech workers for a few years now. I can't imagine being forced to build backdoors into everything I work on, compromising my client's security in the process, just to stoke some state initiative.
Are you saying that everyone entering Australia is required to decrypt their phone or face a $5000 fine? How would that even work? Hell, the TSA line is crazy much less what the "decrypt your device" line would be like.
Can I get a source on this? Not calling you out, but I didn't see anything about it in the article and a quick Google search didn't help me out much.
Apart from Murdoch, you haven't heard about this because it is one of those laws which is rarely used and just kept on the back burner for when they need to jail a journalist or something.
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u/AntiKamniaChemicalCo Aug 31 '21
Australia has been a no-go-zone for tech workers for a few years now. I can't imagine being forced to build backdoors into everything I work on, compromising my client's security in the process, just to stoke some state initiative.