Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law

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ObsoleteNerd · 2018-09 · Strong recommendation

This video they made is absolutely hilarious, and shows just how un-hilarious and fucked up these proposed changes are: [VIDEO]

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ObsoleteNerd · 2018-09 · Strong recommendation

FWIW, I've had pretty good success in getting non-techie friends and family to write in after showing them this video: [VIDEO] It's very entertaining, and explains it in a way that everyday people can understand how bad it will be. I highly urge all Australians to either send this video out to your circles. (No affiliation, it came up in a previous thread about this topic)

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d2wa · 2018-12 · Recommendation

Companies have to build tools that grants any law enforcement agency access to whatever data they want on whomever they want. For an email provider, these tools could include a search function that lets them look through every email on the platform. Or they could just ask them to mail them a daily dump of all new messages on a floppy disk. The point being, FastMail can’t tell the world what assistance and access their granting the government and there is no oversight or even transparency that could spark public debates on what is reasonable and what isn’t. This satirical video is a good introduction to the changes: [VIDEO]

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