Australian Anti-Encryption Law
Added 2018-12-08 16:04:50 +0000 UTCAustralia has passed a new law that is targeted directly at strong encryption standards. You can read about it here: https://kpxc.page.link/8r2P. KeePassXC has responded by taking out a targeted advertisement campaign in Australia to counter this behavior. This campaign is being partially funded by your generous donations on Patreon. Help us continue to fight against draconian laws with free, uncompromised, open source software that is available to EVERYONE.
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Thank you for your feedback and I do agree it cannot be "fought" per say. This is a limited run (couple of days) campaign to help raise awareness of open source encryption tools such as KeePassXC while the public is paying attention. At the moment I am using personal funds to pay for it. I do not intend spending more than $100.
The KeePassXC Team
2018-12-09 01:52:38 +0000 UTCYou are throwing good money after a bad cause. ppl who do not care about their freedom will not be more caucious just because you are making them aware of it. They need to experience how it feels like when someone forbids them to encrypt their stuff so that they feel how it is like to loose this freedom. Apart from that this has nothing to do with technology or KeePassXC at all. By making the decadent and loosing "West" aware you do not improve KeePassXC or Cryptography in ANY way. We have learned much about our so-called democracies in the west here in Europe. We see it in examples like software patents. For half my life I am living in EU fighting the idea of introduction of software patents. And I came to the conclusion that it makes no sense to fight one law proposal, because there will be many. Every year there is one, either it is internet metadata collection, or it is software patents, or it is both, it does not make any sense to fight a law at a time. If you want to fight something, you need to fight the system, not one law or one representative or one person. There will always be someone to propose laws like this as long as the regime does not change. Even if you are successful by fighting one law proposal in Australia, that does not mean, that GB or France or USA do not introduce their own versions of it or even Australia will introduce it just a few months later when no one pays attention to it. It is always the same hamburger.
Lars Schotte
2018-12-08 21:58:01 +0000 UTCI do not think that that is a good idea. Actually I pretty much oppose this idea.
Lars Schotte
2018-12-08 21:51:23 +0000 UTC
