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Time to drop all Atlassian products. Fortunately they removed Server licenses (you have to pay millions for the Datacenter ones or use Cloud) just in time for these new laws.
Source: I work for Atlassian, platform stuff
I am disgusted by the mostly apathetic response in Australia to this terrible legislation.
What are we supposed to do exactly? Write in and have them completely ignore us? Protest in the streets.. oh wait that’s illegal now. Speak up online against them and have counter terrorism units push our mums down stairs?
FTA: “…agencies can take control of a person’s online account to gather evidence about serious offences without consent, as well as add , copy, delete or alter material to disrupt criminal activity and collect intelligence from online networks.” (emphasis added) How is adding or altering data different than planting evidence?
I was about to post the same extract and ask a slightly different question: Does this break the chain of trust of evidence? How can any evidence, therefore, be admissible? Digital / electronic evidence has always been on a bit of a shaky foundation, but this crumbles it to pieces.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just another thing to add to the pile. Australians have got it too good to care about this sort of thing. Like western society and climate change, taking any kind of action gets in the way of enjoying the fucking weekend; don't be such a fucking downer. More sunshine I say!
> Australians have got it too good to care about this sort of thing. Like western society and climate change, taking any kind of action gets in the way of enjoying the fucking weekend; don't be such a fucking downer. More sunshine I say! Nonsense. The problem is that the minority parties who oppose overreach like this are treated as dirty (Liberal Democratic Party) and the major parties all support crap like this. An…
> “What’s worse, the data disruption and network activity warrants could be issued by a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal – really?" she said. > "It is outrageous that these warrants won’t come from a judge of a superior court that is appointed on their personal capacity.” I'm having trouble with the terminology here, but does that mean that these types of warrants could be issued by the equivalent of a m…
Thousands of police and military on the streets maintaining "order". People essentially under house arrest and not allowed to assemble or travel. And now this.
I am disgusted by the mostly apathetic response in Australia to this terrible legislation.
There’s a difference between apathetic and powerless. Everyone I’ve talked to about this including my non-techie family all “care” and agree it’s total bullshit, multiple called/wrote in against it, but every single one of us knows nothing we do will ever stop or change anything. What are we supposed to do exactly? Write in and have them completely ignore us? Protest in the streets.. oh wait that’s illegal now. Speak…