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Oz customs search lappies and mobes for smut

More protections for thin-skinned Antipodeans

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A row has broken out in Australia after it emerged that Customs officers are searching laptops and mobile phones for smutty snaps.

The change actually came in late last year. Inbound passengers must fill in an incoming passenger card which now includes a pornography question.

Fiona Patten, president of the Australian Sex Party, said: “If you and your partner have filmed or photographed yourselves making love in an exotic destination or even taking a bath, you will have to answer ‘Yes’ to the question or you will be breaking the law.”

She said the question was a gross invasion of privacy and could criminalise thousands of people who might answer no to the question out of embarrassment. She said the change had been sneaked in and was a further attempt to prop up Senator Conroy's "failing internet filter".

Australians are clearly a delicate, even over-sensitive bunch who need protecting from this sort of filth, whether it's online or on someone's iPhone. ®

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I am not sure. Can you check for me?

I have these four 2TB hard drives full of stuff. Lots and lots of files. All encrypted. Here is the encryption key. Here is the source code for the non-standard encryption algorithm I used. Sorry the decryption code is so horribly horribly inefficient and slow. You'll need someone to convert all those deep system calls to something your Windows OS can work with. Best if they know Cobol as the programming language I used is distantly derived from that. I expect you to check every single file as I am really really really worried about accidentally breaking the law. And you probably should scan for evidence of data stegging while you are at it.

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lol

WTF is wrong with Australia?? Who's making all these laws?? I mean, what. the. fuck. Australia used to be alright...

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No wonder all the kids come here....

All they need now is to adopt islamic law and they'll be right back to the middle-ages.

And they always have a go at us Brits for being up-tight.

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