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GodEmperorDune

10:24 PM

Tennessee governor considering clemency for sex trafficking victim Cyntoia Brown http://hill.cm/NtEcWa5

Tweeted by thehill on December 12, 2018 at 2:46 PM

Police thought he was eaten by alligators in 2000. Now his high school sweetheart is on trial for his murder. https://wapo.st/2RVliyr

Tweeted by washingtonpost on December 12, 2018 at 2:58 PM

GodEmperorDune

10:45 PM

Software companies like 1Password already discussing potentially not hiring Aussie staff because of the impact of #aabill /cc @terrimbutler @billshortenmp https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/

Tweeted by jamescroft on December 12, 2018 at 12:41 AM

Australia recently passed an extremely silly law about requiring weakened encryption

SaintWacko

@GodEmperorDune Yikes

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Basically, the government can compel individual developers to add backdoors to their company's encryption and under pain of prosecution, said developers have to keep those backdoors secret from the companies.

GodEmperorDune

yeah this is going to backfire on australia spectacularly

Yuuki

Those weekly stand-ups are going to be fun.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki What the fuck

Yuuki

10:50 PM

> "Johnson, I can see from the Git history that you added some weird code on Thursday. What's that about?"
> "Uh... I am legally barred from informing you on this matter?"

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki the commit message says "definitely not a backdoor for the #aabill, nothing to see here"

SaintWacko

Yeah, that's a real quick "Don't hire anyone from Australia"

Yuuki

Also, fun interactions with GDPR.

"Fun"

GodEmperorDune

11:04 PM

yay, insider trading

EXCLUSIVE: Armed Services Chair James Inhofe bought 50k-100k in Raytheon stock days after pushing for record Pentagon budget. @lachlan asked his office about it today. He dropped the stock soon thereafter. https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-james-inhofe-bought-defense-stock-days-after-pushing-for-record-pentagon-spendingthen-dumped-it-when-asked-about-it/main-info

Tweeted by samstein on December 12, 2018 at 10:13 PM

(i don't remember if congress got around to removing their exemption from insider trading rules or not)