Seriously our current government is a thick as two planks of wood, but this law is so stupid that it must be deliberate. Maybe whoever wrote this law ex-girlfriend left him for a software developer, because it seems almost perfectly designed to punish developers.

I hope they do. I hope the global tech industry ostracises us and our tech industry falls apart, and that the politicians wear every bit if it in some kind of political aftertmath, referendum, vote, protests, I don't care.

My worst fear isn't this causing damage, my worst fear is that the tech community will be apathetic and impotent, like they have been all other erosions of privacy so far.

I'm far more worried that this bill will be forgotten than acted upon.

What happens 2 decades down the track when a newly elected government suddenly realises that through 20 years of apathy they've been slowly handed every tool they need to turn themselves into the 4th Reich?

As long as we can still clone and pull anonymously, I'll be half-happy, at least. :)

Read up on the article about how it's going to happen. Hide a third party in your group chat as a silent observer that you can't see.

Terrifying. Wickr for all comms, here I go.