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+1 block us. Apple if you are reading this stop selling us iPhones. Australians need to feel the pain of this otherwise nothing will change.

1 billion dollars wiped from Atlassian already. I’m hoping the markets react more and destroy the industry here.

Might want to assume that all Australian developers are now potentially compromised.

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Ugh, Trello is owned by Atlassian. Will this law mean we should assume Trello is compromised? Trello is based in the US, so I'm not sure how that plays out with the law.

If Australians work on it, then yes.

Possible it will go nowhere. How can Apple for example provide a backdoor for imessage which isn't a systemic weakness?

Considering that isn’t even defined in the bill that just passed I have little hope it will save it.

> have little hope it will save it.

have little hope what will save what?

have the app store send a special version of the app or system update to robryan that as well as renders the message on the screen also sends it to the gov.

The intelligence service will request a special version of the software which will store the contents unencrypted, or decrypt the existing contents, or send information to a different server.

Then they will coerce a telecommunications provider to install this application on the targets machine (says nothing about having it installed on everybody's machine accidentally or otherwise).

Then they shall profit.

They could be compelled to send firmware updates only to specific phones with a new version of imessage that doesn't perform end-to-end encryption.

The Government simply defines systemic weakness to be something that doesn’t happen when Apple is coerced to introduce an easily exploitable hole in their security for all products.

I wish I was being facetious.

I bet that the entity that sells iPhones here in Oz is different to Apple inc. and has absolutely no leverage to do anything in software.

Just like Yandex in Russia - legally they buy all of the software from a company in Netherlands, at least that what I heard.

That's how they get around tax.

Apple Inc will sell the phones at high rates to Apple Australia, so Apple Australia can claim they are making zero profit in Australia, so hence have to pay no tax.

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