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Re:Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security? by adamc on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:19PM (#18973172)
I think the defense is to absolutely not do business in Australia, and to mark your products as not for sale there.
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Re:Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security? by owenversteeg on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:29PM (#18973262)
Which, I'd like to point out, isn't a big loss: it's population 24 million, about the size of Taiwan. If you're making a physical product, shipping and taxes will make it criminally expensive to sell there, and if you're making a digital product, there's this and the considerations of slow internet and a different time zone.

I think it's actually quite reasonable and doable for companies to boycott Australia over this, and I hope we see some. It'd be free press for the company and cost relatively little - I'd imagine the press would pay for any missed Australian sales. And it'd put some pressure on the Australian government for this idiocy.

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Re:Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security? by ianhowson on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:04PM (#18973594)
Australians are quite accustomed to bypassing geoblocks and import restrictions, in any case.

But that's not really the problem here -- it's more that Australian products and employees may be tainted by unknown government interference.

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Re:Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security? by NoPicklez on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @09:28PM (#18975141)
As an Australian, I'd almost rather this so then it actually makes it a problem for everyone. Then the politicians might take a good hard look at what they're trying to do.
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Re:Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security? by reaperducer on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:42PM (#18973381)
and to mark your products as not for sale there.

Other companies have done similar things in the past, though probably not for the same reasons.

I had a GRiD Compass laptop that had a big sticker on the back with a surprisingly long list of countries where it was illegal to bring the computer. The only one I remember offhand was Israel.

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