[cyphar]

> It seems like the fine for noncompliance for an individual is 238 "penalty units", which currently corresponds to nearly $50,000 (Australian), unless I misunderstand things. A $50,000 fine is quite serious even for a well-paid software engineer.

Note that they can always revoke the request they gave you and request a new one. So they can fine you an infinite amount of money and drive you to bankruptcy if they want to. Now, it's possible this would be seen as an abuse of power but you'd need to go to court over it and you can't afford lawyers nearly expensive as the government's.

> If I end up writing a little library and it gets popular, who's to say the spooks won't decide that's where they want the backdoor, and just send me a TAN to the email on my GitHub profile? Very likely not, but it is possible and would cost me at least several thousand dollars in legal bills to figure out how to respond.

TCN, not TAN.