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Just remember to avoid fastmail (due to the terrible Australian tech laws - essentially anyone can be coerced into installing backdoors / surveillance tech into any system and they're required to maintain secrecy). So add the avoidance of any Australian service to your matrix of considerations.

It's very noble to switch away from google as much as possible; good luck



Wait, do you mean every piece of software coming from Australia? Andrew Tridgell is Australian. Would it therefore include Samba and Rsync? Does that mean Sublime Text could have a mandatory backdoor? Is there a list of software affected by this Australian law?




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