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Ranger at Burning Man, Linux Distro Engineer @ AWS, geek, armchair philosopher, 🚴🏼‍♂️&🏃🏻‍♂️. All opinions & signs of insanity expressed here are my own.
Dec 4, 2018 11 tweets 9 min read
The #aabill is incredibly short-sighted & luddite. Even if the AU Gov. can coerce tech companies to backdoor encrypted messaging platforms, nothing's going to stop people from resorting to using free & opensource #crypto software like @GnuPG! #auspol bit.ly/2QbxUor 1/ Popular #crypto software is trusted because it's been written & vetted by members of a decentralized #opensource community which you can't coerce. If you want to make it illegal to possess @GnuPG in Australia because you can't backdoor it, then you'll kill the IT industry. 2/