Returning travellers made to hand over phones and passcodes to Australian Border Force
Returning travellers made to hand over phones and passcodes to Australian Border Force https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/returning-travellers-made-to-h... "A man who was forced to hand over his phone and passcode to Australian Border Force after returning to Sydney from holiday has labelled the tactic “an absolute gross violation of privacy”, as tech advocates call for transparency and stronger privacy protections for people’s devices as they enter the country. "Software developer James and his partner returned from a 10-day holiday in Fiji earlier this month and were stopped by border force officials at Sydney airport. They were taken aside, and after emptying their suitcases, an official asked them to write their phone passcodes on a piece of paper, before taking their phones into another room. "It was half an hour before their phones were returned, and they were allowed to leave. James initially posted about his ordeal on Reddit. “We weren’t informed why they wanted to look at the phones. We were told nothing,” he told Guardian Australia. “Who knows what they’re taking out of it? With your phone and your passcode they have everything, access to your entire email history, saved passwords, banking, Medicare, myGov. There’s just so much scope.” (End of partial quote) Jim Bell's comment: Yet another good argument for a functional and easy-to-use AP system.
On 1/17/22, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Returning travellers made to hand over phones and passcodes to Australian Border Force
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/returning-travellers-made-to-h... https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/s1pvs3/customs_confiscated_and_s... Software developer ... were stopped by border force ... taking their phones “We weren’t informed why they wanted to look at the phones. We were told nothing,” he told Guardian Australia.
Jim Bell's comment: Yet another good argument for a functional and easy-to-use AP system.
It's been well known for years that any of the many coins that can send some text along inside each transaction could be used to run General Purpose Prediction Markets. Maybe Govts are trying to snoop every developer so that they can make their own more accurate predictions about when PM's will roll out to solve the lingering question of "But who will build the roads?" What prediction odds are people giving that Craig Wright will roll back his BSV chain when someone does transactions he disagrees with, such as predicting when he will loose his next court case... https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2022/2.html 4. The claimant is a Seychelles incorporated company, whose ultimate beneficial owners are Dr Craig Wright and his family. Dr Wright claims to have created the Bitcoin system under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto". 5. The defendants are open-source software developers who developed or improved the Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash ABC software on a non-commercial basis. 6. The claimant claims to be the owner of about US$4.5 billion worth of digital assets ("the Bitcoin"), which were accessed and controlled by Dr Wright from his computer and network in England. In order to do so, Dr Wright used secure "private keys". These private keys were deleted (presumably after having been copied) by hackers who accessed Dr Wright's computer in February 2020. Dr Wright is now unable to access the Bitcoin. 7. The claimant's case is that the defendants owe fiduciary and tortious duties to it to re-write or amend the underlying software code to enable it to access the Bitcoin. It has asked them to take those steps. The defendants do not consider themselves to be under the duties alleged by the claimant and have refused to take the steps requested.
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