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What kicked this off the front page? Note that the most-upvoted post in the past month, critical of Google, was at the time mysteriously kicked off the front page as well.
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Can launches can be targeted (legally) to a country? The site is hosted in London and am already GDPR compliant - wonder if this is means it is not under Australian laws?
If you're not an Aussie company, and don't have any staff in Australia, then it's a long reach for them to do something to you. If you specifically reject all customers attempting to sign up from an Aussie IP address, or with an Aussie physical address (if you have that), then you're on pretty firm ground to tell them to piss off if they come knocking. But, y'know, I'm not a lawyer, and you might be subject to whatev…
USA didn't like it though, and asked NZ to extradite him to face charges in the USA.
Legal battle still going, I think... but the business is dead.
I doubt Australia has that much clout, but you never know when an extradition will be the price of some favour to someone...
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Don't launch in Australia. Or don't launch in Europe. GDPR and this legislation are in direct conflict. Pick a market...
Nothing bad about GDPR, since it's actually made to protect citizens.
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God this is so true. I am so ashamed of our so-called representatives. Please, Apple, do what you know is right and disable all iPhones in Australia. Google, please do the same with Android. If you have a website, geoblock Australia from it. Quarantine us from the world. We are sick and will infect you all.
I can’t see Apple allowing the Australian government to dictate how they handle security... it’d destroy all confidence in their brand.
Somebody over on Reddit [1] went through all the submissions (there was a consultation period) and summarised and tallied them [2]. Fully 99%+ of submissions were against the bill. A sad day for democracy indeed. A church in Tasmania was in favour, because child pornography. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/a3j466/assistanc... 2. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dowpZ_Xtr1N_DgkHJN8i...
A sad day for democracy, but this fact restores some faith in humanity.
FTFU
This is another thing that adds to my deep sense of shame to live in this country (sadly, that list is long and growing). This bill does nothing to prevent the kinds of things it is intended to prevent. The apps this law targets were engineered specifically to prevent this kind of interference. The idea that passing legislation will suddenly change that, magically allowing decryption of messages is beyond idiotic. Th…
Make no mistake, with the rise of ML governments will be able to crush social movements in the nascent stage before they become too big to stop. People will be arrested for thought crimes because they posted the wrong thing on the wrong website. And currently a large number of people would cheer because the people getting arrested are on the "other" side of the political spectrum. Be careful what you wish for
Or even a list of Australian devs to blacklist lol
How can someone know whether their software is compromised by this?
Officially, they can’t, but you can be absolutely certain that iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram are going to be immediately targeted with TCNs (technical capability notice), requiring them to bundle Australian government spyware and requiring that those apps send all conversations to the spyware.
Open source apps like Signal would be extremely hard to compromise since no one is going to allow a backdoor commit.
What kicked this off the front page? Note that the most-upvoted post in the past month, critical of Google, was at the time mysteriously kicked off the front page as well.
Since it's back on the front page now, I'd guess that the HN mods decided that this was important and un-tripped the detector.