Customs confiscated and scanned our mobile phones in Sydney

We increasingly vote for people and figureheads. Not policies. Who even reads a party programme these days? I'm not Australian but this seems to be a thing in the whole Western world right now. It's more like the X factor these days sadly.

Both major parties vote for this sort of thing. And none of it is ever an election issue because there's always some other quibble: boat people, interest rates, mining tax, personality gripes, etc.

What surprises me more is that people consider the cloud to be a safer option. Snowden showed us otherwise.

Most of my cloud stuff is encrypted with Cryptomator, all but the handy to have stuff (documentation, Isos etc). But I don't hear active talking about such precautions.

The difference with the cloud is they don't see people walking off with their phones and asking sensitive details. This makes them feel violated and rightly so. Most people don't feel so bad about the cloud even though it can happen at any time there and you wouldn't even know about it. When you think about it that's actually even worse.

Is this any different conceptually as being "pwned" and put on the Wall of Sheep at Defcon?

I wonder how this will play out with the AU/NZ alliance with free travel etc. NZ seems to be getting more progressive while Australia becomes more conservative. Will there be a point where something has to give?

You forgot the time we literally weren't allowed to leave during most of 2020 and 2021.

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