Australian government passes controversial world-first anti-encryption law amid broad criticism I wanted to start a discussion about this piece of news that seemingly went under the radar yesterday: https://newatlas.com/australia-encryption-law-passes-controversy/57560/ It is worth nothing that Australia is part of FVEY (five eyes) which Q has alluded to on numerous occasions (UK, US, CA, NZ, AU). Also worth noting that just last week Rod Rosenstein spoke about this: The Australian legislation comes as law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere are seeking to revive the so-called going-dark debate. Last week, Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Deputy Attorney General, gave a speech in Washington where he attacked American technology companies for not being more open to potential compromises. “We cannot accept a culture in which technology companies considers it part of their responsibility to defeat legitimate law enforcement,” Mr. Rosenstein said. Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/australia-plans-to-make-encryption-cracking-the-law-and-tech-firms-are-worried-1543991851 Now I am not trying to jump to conclusions here, but this certainly makes me worried. Also the fact that they rushed the law through makes the timing somewhat suspect to me. If I had to guess, I would say this is a direct response to Q taking out the communication systems and blocking access to data for FVEY intelligence gathering. This may allow the deep state to gain access to iMessages, WhatsApp, and other end-to-end encrypted messages through data sharing between countries. I doubt military intelligence would be vulnerable, but any politician or law enforcement officer cooperating with the white hats could be. Either way, this is a pretty terrible law for privacy and I feel bad for any anons living in Australia.