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"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, we need to keep that in mind at all times" - Bill Hicks

IANAL but it is interesting that most Australians don't realise that police already don't need a warrant to access phone and internet data.

>Reports emerged in the Australian media ‘revealing’ that the AFP was accessing phone and Internet records without a warrant, as if it was a new power, when in fact warrantless access by police to communications data has been in place for over 15 years and reported in detail annually since 2008. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...

We're already living in a surveillance dystopia, why would accessing the data on our phones be any different?

With #aabill our government has already shown it couldn't give two shits about quaint notions like "innocent until proven guilty" and "privacy". They ignored all legal and expert advice that was given during the consultation period and pushed their agenda regardless of the will of the people.

Good on this judge for at least making them specify how much overreach they are going to do - maybe the lobotomized masses will finally say "no" for once.

I'd guess MDMA would be the most common.

Yes, definitely.

Even if all that is true, who cares? Also, all libertarians are stupid?

He exposed the US government illegally spying on their own citizens (and lying about it), at massive personal risk. He's a hero of true democracy. That's all I need to know.

This layperson is also convinced he's smart, BTW.

On the plus side, all the IT jobs we're losing here in Australia might come back when the US starts routing all their traffic through here so they can spy on US citizens!

>It taught me an unpleasant fact of people's psychology: people have such astonishing status-quo bias that they will rewrite the past to match the present.

Very perceptive. What blows me away is that even knowing the past, they still think the future won't be different.

I'm in Australia, and the amount of apathy is astounding.

Scary developments like the AABill which is to literally force citizen sysadmins to secretly spy on other citizens under threat of 10 years jail, with no oversight and no ability for legal representation.

Passed with bipartisan support, except for some amendments that were meant to happen in February which would have made the catastrophic bill just disastrous.

No amendments have happened, there is no media interest, and no concern from the lobotomized public.

>taking the paranoid rants of a barely literate high school dropout at face value?

Have you heard Snowden speak? I've not heard many people in my life who are more educated and eloquent.

But that's not a problem! The bill said that it wouldn't create any systemic weaknesses!

So just let us do it, ok.

But we'll put you in jail if you talk about it.

Those are all great points butit's still unbelievably scary to think of a government that is storing all digital communications of all its citizens forever.

You'd have to be super naive or ignorant of history to think any different. Even if you trust our current regime, you never know what could happen in the future. It's just too much potential harm in exchange for the convenience of simply not having to do targeted spying instead of mass surveillance.

Nobody likes terrorists but mass surveillance is just way too open to abuse.

Also those Ring doorbell cameras that are being watched by over 200 police departments.

Some Australians care but all of these horrific laws are getting passed with bipartisan support.

Cashless can also be anonymous, but that won't be presented as an option of course.

You are so right about the innocent until proven guilty.

Sure, if it's anonymous cryptocoins.

But I don't want the government able to monitor every $2 purchase I make.

Please state what all the positive ramifications you are referring to are. All I see is essentially some extra convenience in exchange for a probable privacy nightmare.

No, that could never happen... /s

See: Wikileaks Iraq body count.

Australia has already passed draconian secret mass-surveillance laws, and also is part of five eyes so everyone (including American citizens) are subject to draconian mass-surveillance which is shared with the US when their data goes through any computer on Australian soil.

Australian Federal police are busy attacking journalists right now for exposing a coverup of their soldiers murdering children.

Americans should fight this with everything they have.

Make no mistake, the "free" world is well on its way to becoming a surveillance dystopia.

The nazis could only have dreamed about having the secret and unfettered surveillance apparatus politicians have created, and they are targeting that apparatus towards journalists and citizens.

It's not about terrorists or pedophiles, it's about you and I, and anyone else who could potentially expose government or military incompetence/wrongdoing.

The leaker should have sold the data to third parties, then it would have been ok. /s

I hope you're not right about that, but I fear you are.

I also underestimated how much the average joe doesn't care about privacy. They'd give it up completely for a tiny bit of convenience. Nobody cares enough to desire a private/decentralized web.

This is so different to bitcoin. It's a centralized service. There's no reason for them to not just use an SQL database instead of a completely neutered blockchain. The whole point of bitcoin was to avoid that centralization.

I know you probably know that, but we need to nip in the bud any suggestion of anonymity because cryptocoin.

"At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more cash transactions — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that features regulated on and off ramps with proper know-your-customer (KYC) practices, combined with the ability for law enforcement and regulators to conduct their own analysis of on-chain activity, will be a big opportunity to increase the efficacy of financial crimes monitoring and enforcement"

It's a pity that a country needs a Nazi holocaust to realize that mass surveillance is a bad thing.

The US will learn, as will the UK and Australia.

Finding all crime is not the goal.

As the KGB saying goes, "Everyone has committed a crime, it's about who we decide to prosecute".

The entire article is to explain how the new anti-encryption laws augmented the existing laws, removing the need for a special journalist information warrant.

So it was exactly these horrible laws that allowed them to stomp through and do whatever tf they want, including modifying data.

But, but, but... the bill specifically says that they're excluded from the spying! So they're totally immune from that risk! /s

Yes, I'll laugh when their pants inevitably fall down. I wonder what the reaction will be.

But seriously, I have to wonder what these politicians want the endgame to be. A police state isn't good for anyone, including them.

I used to think Australia was the best country and think they were trying their best for Australia's interests, but they are busily removing the good things about Australia at a really scary rate. I don't want to trade a minor increase in "safety" for living in a surveillance dystopia, which is 100% where we're headed.

Dat seems like it could be a good way for those infosec people and others that don't like youtube to share their videos.

Is there any way to stream video using OBS via dat?

Can you share on dat via tor?

It's good that people have some knowledge that the spying is happening now, but what has really changed?

Everyone is still being spied upon, only now people seem to have a sense of inevitability about it.

*google

The internet promised so much, but is being ruined by corporations and governments.

I can't help but feel the ruining is accelerating.

I hope the infosec community can come up with some kind of decentralized way to actually share free speech. If anyone is capable, they are.

The discovery problem is an illusion. If you build it, they will come.

I don't see it anywhere. Where does it list your personal info?

Cool, thanks for the info. I think I'll try out virtualbox with Whonix.