How does that even work? When you push code for a back door it’s going to still go through a code review so it’s not exactly going to be secret, right?
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s worse then you think. As a Australian citizen you are required to comply with any order which includes leaking code and introducing back doors. Failure to comply or notifying your employer about the request. will result in federal charges with a sentence between 20 to 60 years in prison.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep and then you get fired but atleast you won’t go to jail
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My point is that any dev team worth anything has it set up so that it isn’t possible to merge changes into master unless someone else approves. So it’s more like it isn’t possible in most cases, not “you should do the right thing”.
sarmale@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
20year minimum, really? Isnt that also for murder?
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a really fucking stupid law. Do we need to worry about Australia becoming fascist?
No1@aussie.zone 1 year ago
You think that’s stupid? How about our leaders:
Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM
dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 1 year ago
I don’t want to believe this, my brain is refusing to process that statement, I have stared at that article in a state of disbelief for a minute. Surely someone can’t be that stupid, right?
I have heard plenty of brain dead arguments by anti-encryption, but this is by far the stupidest. There is no way, there is just no way that he’s so… I want to say brain dead, but that would imply that there is even a brain there for it to be dead.
Regardless of political affiliation, or even the individual’s stance on encryption, surely there can’t be a single person that heard that statement and didn’t laugh at it, right?
No1@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Oh, it’s no fun. And we have media concentration issues here too, so you won’t get balanced or even a mention of both sides of an issue.
Australia has been the testing ground for implementing Big Brother’s spying technology policies. The ones that are often tried later on in the US or UK.
Nearly all of them have passed with full support from the two major parties here. I wish everyone better luck.
dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 1 year ago
grayman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too late. Already is.
random65837@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a joke right? It has been for a very long time.