Mozilla has told the Australian government that its anti-encryption laws could turn its own employees into insider threats.
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Email crooks swindle woman out of $150K from home sale
She sent her bank account details three times, she said. Unfortunately, they wound up in crooks’ hands, and her money wound up in their pockets.
Hacker uses early warning system for fake message campaign
Australians got scary texts, emails and phone calls from a trusted emergency warning service late last week after a hacker broke into its systems and used it to send fake messages.
Governments demand companies allow access to data, or else
A decades-old alliance of national intelligence partners promised to get at encrypted data last week, whether tech companies helped them or not.
Apple gets cored: 90GB of ‘secure files’ stolen by high schooler
An Aussie high schooler pleaded guilty on Thursday to hacking Apple servers multiple times.
Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspected criminals’ data. If they can’t, it would jail people for up to a decade if they refuse to unlock their phones.
Your face could be sucked off Facebook and on to a national biometric database
Australia’s government is happy to jump on the high-quality, highly accurate imagery captured and linked to identities on social media. 
Facebook unfriending was the last straw in workplace bullying case
Unfriending someone on Facebook can be “indicative of unreasonable behaviour”, a court found.
Hundreds of Australian nude images posted without women’s consent
“Come at me Aussie police,” the uploader jeered, threatening to repost the images to the Deep Web.
“Creep” shamed on Facebook was actually man taking selfie with Darth Vader
She mistakenly thought he was a “creep” snapping photos of her kids. By the time the post was shared 20K times, he’d received death threats and is now considering legal options. 