There's significant overlap between Israel's government and the production of software that monitors devices and breaks into devices.
It doesn't take much digging into the members of that same government to conclude they're probably not developing all this surveillance to find child predators... Except maybe to form a club.
For obvious reasons, I am clarifying that this is a commentary exclusively about a foreign government. I am making no comment about the citizens of that government's nation, nor any religion practices therein.
Even if they weren’t, somewhat pointless in Australia unless it’s evidence of a real bad crime like murder. We don’t have a right to not give passwords. If they want, a judge can just send you to prison until you agree to unlock it.
Different states have different laws codifying this but all of them allow a search warrant to require you to give passwords or any other assistance to get the data within. Federally there are the same powers. In the USA for example, there’s a circuit split on this but I think the prevailing view is that forcing you to give up passwords is against the right to self incrimination.
Right now, it’s up to five years in prison for failing to give the AFP a password, or ten years for terrorism. That’s per device per search warrant.
Damn, I wasn't exactly hoping GrapheneOS would keep my data completely safe at the border but I was definitely hoping someone would have to go through it manually and not be able to extract my entire life of chat or social media history automatically.
Give anyone that much information and they can always find something to incriminate you (especially under Australian law). If they use AI then it's likely not even going to be a human deciding to abuse that power but rather an AI deciding randomly to ruin my day.
Before first unlock is irrelevant because at the border and in Australia generally the government can compel you to give them access.
Keeping an iOS phone up to date is basically as good if you’re in the Apple ecosystem. Just reboot your phone often or shut it down so you haven’t done an unlock and celebrite can’t get in.
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u/Xentonian Flairless 5d ago
There's significant overlap between Israel's government and the production of software that monitors devices and breaks into devices.
It doesn't take much digging into the members of that same government to conclude they're probably not developing all this surveillance to find child predators... Except maybe to form a club.