Cue French tech companies moving in 1, 2, 3âŚ
Pourquoi les entreprises de haute technologie commencent ailleurs?
Iâm sure people in the US are looking at this and knee jerk reactioning âWe need this!! We must protect the freedoms!!â
Prison is, after all, a great place to keep freedom for its own protection. Murica!
They cannot put a corporation in prison. I wonder if they could imprison the executives? The USA canât, so itâs probably impossible.
theyâre baying for blood; Iâm sure theyâll find a way.
edit: On a side note, the UN usually sits on its hands with this sort of stuffâŚwhatâs going on behind the curtain?
Letâs hope they donât let this pass as it would be a terrible idea all around.
With respect to the drama playing through Apple v. FBI, recommended reading (PDF from judiciary.gov), testimony from Dr. Susan Landau (who is, frankly, kickass) to the House Judiciary Comm.: "<a href=âhttp://judiciary.house.gov/_cache/files/b3af6e9e-b599-4216-b2f9-1aee6a1d90cd/landau-written-testimony.pdfâ title="Testimony for House Judiciary Committee Hearing on âThe Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americansâ Security and Privacyâ>Testimony for House Judiciary Committee Hearing on âThe Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americansâ Security and Privacyâ:
Some international consequences:
"There are also serious international consequences that would stem from Apples' developing code to unsecure its iPhones operating system. As Iâm sure members of the committee are aware, when members of the US government and businesspeople travel to certain countries, they bring âloanerâ devices with themâphones and laptops that are wiped clean before they leave the US and wiped clean on return. Thatâs the case even though the devices never have their network connections turned on, at least by the owner. Recommendations for security include such steps as removing batteries from a phone when at meetings (in order to prevent a microphone being turned on remotely) and keeping the device with you at all times. Appleâs efforts to secure the data on the iPhone should be viewed in this light.There is another international aspect to the FBIâs efforts to unsecure the phone. United States support of human rights is a cornerstone of US foreign policy. It includes strong support for private and secure communications, for such capabilities are a necessity for human rights workers in repressive nations.
There is no question that authoritarian governments in such countries as Russia and China will demand Apple deliver the same software that is it has been ordered to develop to handle Farookâs work phone.50 Appleâs ability to resist such demands is made much more difficult if it has already created the code for US government use.
With the Snooperâs Charter revving up in the UK, I hope the American courts do the right thing so theyâll come here. Oooooofff course, theyâll also look at our politics and do a NOPE.
Bienvenue, mon amis!
Holy crap, the hypocrisy is so dense it reaches black hole levelsâŚ
French Fries, surely?
Shit! Iâm French, and Iâm trying to keep informed on that kind of shit, but that one went past my radar. I canât even mail my representative about it: the asshole caved into the mass surveillance trend a few months ago. Was technically a Greensâ associates. I knew we should have kept some kind of purity among the Greens.
They would probably go after some random engineer, or perhaps a team-lead.
What country still has actual freedom and respect for human rights?
Where can the ethical tech giant safely move?
Thanks for that one. Blew cereal all over my keyboard laughing.
How the heck did that get attached to my name? Stupid discourse bbs.
If you quote a quote, it getâs credited to the last quoter rather than the original quotee. Which is why there are tons of asshole quotes on the BBS from @frauenfelder and @beschizza where they were just quoting assholes.
Do you have a substantive comment about Professor Landauâs testimonyâdid you bother to read anything beyond that one para of the testimony?
Itâs mine and I wonât let you have it.
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