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DyslexicAtheist | karma 34036 | avg karma 4.92 · 2022-06-17 07:58:14

> this takes the cake for the worst one yet, or certainly up there.

my number one is the Australian AABill mandating any Australian citizen working for a tech company can be forced to create backdoors in code and altering their employer about it is illegal. This one is so bad, that if it were China, we'd no longer hire any Chinese nationals anywhere in the world.

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ehnto | karma 13794 | avg karma 3.12 · 2022-06-17 08:18:17

I was an Australian freelancing internationally at the time it was introduced, and took pretty good care fully understanding the bill to the best of my ability. It really seems to be as bad as it sounds.

But what worried me was that it was actually written quite coherently, I felt like it was had been well considered by some people of technical background, but the bill still had ill intent. So I'm not sure what's worse, legislature misunderstanding technology so much that it's harmful, or people using a good understanding of technology to be more precise and underhanded in their abuse.

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fifteenforty | karma 447 | avg karma 4.06 · 2022-06-17 09:06:15

It's completely outrageous and there is still no momentum to undo it.

AndrewThrowaway | karma 623 | avg karma 4.45 · 2022-06-17 08:33:00

What if I create a backdoor but during the code review it gets noticed?

Or does Australian government also supply some handbook about how to do it properly?

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margarina72 | karma 315 | avg karma 5.73 · 2022-06-17 08:46:01

I mean that'd be a minimum, good guidelines can go a long way. Who's going to maintain this backdoor if you get fired, uh? /s

2143 | karma 1313 | avg karma 2.06 · 2022-06-17 10:50:30

> any Australian citizen working for a tech company can be forced to create backdoors in code and altering their employer about it is illegal

What the fish?

> This one is so bad, that if it were China, we'd no longer hire any Chinese nationals anywhere in the world.

Heck if it was China implementing something like GDPR and the rest of the world was seeing those annoying popups, then:

* for 3 months the rest of the world will hate-tolerate it

* then somebody will figure out how to get rid of the popups for the rest of the world

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