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Could an expat Australian dev be compelled to put backdoors in software even while overseas, under threat of being prosecuted when he returns? If so, Australia
by brokenmachine 8y ago
Could an expat Australian dev be compelled to put backdoors in software even while overseas, under threat of being prosecuted when he returns?
If so, Australians can't even be employed in foreign software companies.
- boyter 8y agoThe law as written applies to any company or person that does business or has customers in Australia. This includes websites. So they don’t need anyone Australian on your team as written. However yes.
- pvg 8y agoNo. People work in jurisdictions other than their own with potentially conflicting laws all the time. If it worked the way you seem to be suggesting it does, nobody, never mind Australians, would be able to work outside their home municipality at all.
- bigiain 8y agoExtraordinary rendition of SV software devs. I doubt even _that_ would cause an uproar so long as it's timed to coincide with yet another threat to the aspirationally wealthy Australian way of life... "Well, we need to lock up E2E encrypted messaging app developers in Nauru and Guantanamo Bay, because otherwise mortgage rates will go up and your house and investment property values will fall!"
- pvg 8y agoThis is why Australia was formally handed over to the Illuminati in the Treaty of Westphalia.
- isostatic 8y agoCould any developer put backdoors in under promise of a suitcase of cash? If your review system fails because your Aussie developer "may be compromised", it fails because your $good_country developer may also be compromised.
- cloverich 8y agoThe difference is the type of person that would do it for cash likely has other personality traits that make them at least somewhat easier to spot. If this could compel upstanding, trustworthy individuals to do the same, that's a bit harder to handle.