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"The choice for all of us working on that software was stark: we could either distribute the product of our work, or enter a legal morass, and getting it wrong
by petermcneeley 9y ago
"The choice for all of us working on that software was stark: we could either distribute the product of our work, or enter a legal morass, and getting it wrong could end up in court"
Is this not simply an economically expedient choice? To put the security and privacy of users below that of product distribution? How is this choice really different than any tradeoff a software company today makes about security?
- bostik 9y agoThat's an unfair characterisation. There's a world of difference between choosing not to implement security features to allow faster shipping; and keeping security features out because with them you are not allowed to ship. The first is garden-variety negligence. The second is politically mandated malfeasance.
- watwut 9y agoIt is difference between risk of "loosing some money+time" and risk of "loosing huge huge amount of money and possibly ending in jail". To use analogy, there is difference between risking a dollar in a bet and risking five thousands of dollars+broken collarbone.