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I'd recommend actually reading the bill to form your own conclusions. The main problem is that it mostly is a series of amendments, and many of them are quite u
by cyphar 8y ago
I'd recommend actually reading the bill to form your own conclusions. The main problem is that it mostly is a series of amendments, and many of them are quite unrelated.
Most of the discussion is about the Technical Capability Notice section (which allows the government to compel a telecommunication provider, under threat of 5 years imprisonment, to create the ability to access communications otherwise inaccessible) but very few people are talking about the Computer Access Warrant sections...
And it's possible for employees to be forced to do this, and you cannot reveal information about these technical notices to your employer -- in fact you are given immunity from civil persecution precisely for this reason. So you now have to sabotage your employer because of an order by the Australian government. Good luck keeping your job.
- ACow_Adonis 8y agoI very well may end up reading the whole thing, but that's partly why i'd actually like an expert summary, because my understanding is that these are amendments to existing legislation, and as a non-expert, the ability for me to be able to understand all the other legislation and implications that it works with is probably pretty close to zero...
- rswail 8y agoThe best discussion I've found in terms of the legislation is at [1]. The most insidious part to me as a programmer, is the definition of a "Designated Communications Provider" which (amongst others) includes (S317C, item 6): "the person develops, supplies or updates software used, for use, or likely to be used, in connection with: (a) a listed carriage service; or (b) an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia" and the "eligible activities" are: (a) the development by the person of any such software; or (b) the supply by the person of any such software; or (c) the updating by the person of any such software" [1] https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/billsdgs/6370016/upload_binary/6370016.pdf;fileType=application/pdf https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...
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- ashildr 8y agoSo australian software developers have become pretty much toxic now?
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- teraflop 8y agoI haven't read the whole thing, but my favorite part so far is 317E (1)(c), which says that the "listed acts" (the things the government can require you do to) include "installing, maintaining, testing or using software or equipment". In other words, they can just hand you a flash drive containing malware and force you to install it. You're not allowed to say no, and you're not allowed to tell anybody.