Five Eyes' Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption
&quot;It&#x27;s been swell, but the swellings gone down&quot;.<p>It was a fun 25 years for me personally. Time to re-think my entire online existence and take up knitting or something.<p>I don&#x27;t even do anything &quot;wrong&quot;, I make games, and tinker with electronics, but I do NOT like knowing that every single private chat I have is monitored, collected, stored, and searched. I&#x27;ve used lots of encrypted chat programs and encrypted data storage because MY stuff is MINE, not theirs.<p>They don&#x27;t let us read their private documents and emails, or read their private chats. Increasingly, it&#x27;s the people in power who are caught being the ones doing fucked up things to children (concentration camps in the US, child rape rings in the UK, etc)... yet WE are the ones who have to give up all privacy, all rights, so they can monitor us?<p>In the great words of my countrymen: Yeahnah.<p>It&#x27;s despicable how our (AU) country&#x27;s sycophant nature has dragged us down the authoritarian well with the US&#x2F;UK. We had a chance to stand up on our own, with a good strong economy while the rest of the world struggled with the GFC, our own tech companies showing they can stand up on an international stage, and the beginnings of a world class fibre network that would&#x27;ve propelled us into the future comfortably.<p>Instead, we get this. Bow down to your masters, do as we say not as we do, and be happy we&#x27;re not locking you up (yet) for wanting to talk to your wife about personal medical things in private, or store your personal belongings (photos of our kids, banking details, passwords) in a secure place where no one steal them. Why won&#x27;t we think of the children?! Says the same people stealing them, raping them, and ruining their future.