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Yeah, that's not completely unfair. I tend to think that leaks will always happen, regardless of communications media, surveillance, and encryption. But your
by jMyles 8y ago
Yeah, that's not completely unfair.
I tend to think that leaks will always happen, regardless of communications media, surveillance, and encryption. But your point isn't entirely unfounded.
- cyphar 8y agoAustralia passed a law earlier this year[1] which now has a mandatory 25-year minimum sentence for anyone who leaks government information. They're definitely trying to stop leaks from happening, and it's fucking disgraceful. I also just discovered that this law also criminalises (with a 10-year prison sentence) creating software vulnerabilities in anything that is part of public infrastructure. This means that you could arguably give any software engineer (that has ever worked on free software the government uses) a mandatory 10-year prison sentence for being a saboteur because they were "reckless". [1]: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018A00067 https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018A00067