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I wonder what this means for Atlassian's international clients. Does the Australian government have unfretted access to any code hosted with Atlassian ? Maybe
by wrong_variable 8y ago
I wonder what this means for Atlassian's international clients.
Does the Australian government have unfretted access to any code hosted with Atlassian ?
Maybe if you are a small business in Australia you would not care about it - but big European, Chinese or American clients would definitely not be convinced by any assurances.
The most important thing is that kind of question should not be raised in the first place, the biggest threat is not the Australian govt or Australian rival companies, the biggest threat are rival companies in their own soil that can take advantage of such a backdoor - it could just be as easy as a cash transfer to a low level employee in the Australian govt.
All of these factors just means Australia is not a good place to invest when it comes to cloud infrastructure, data warehousing or intellectual property, that if is leaked could literally destroy your livelihood.
- ehmish 8y agoAtlassian may have been founded by Australians but its headquartered in the UK (for tax reasons I assume) and listed in the US, it's as exposed as any multinational to this sort of thing
- rswail 8y agoWhile the idea that the laws of math can be revoked in Australia is silly, any company that trades with or sells services to Australians is liable under this proposed law if they are a designated provider. So Atlassian is no less or more likely to be covered here than any other software house that sells to Australians.