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Are Belgian developers immune to insert-evil-country-of-choice bribing, extortion or just being plain evil? Are we still doing this "Oh, they are nationality s

• paulryanrogers 7y ago
  > Are we still doing this "Oh, they are nationality so they are spies!" thing? Stereotyping is counterproductive. Still, based on recent changes in Australian law I can see why some organisations may pause before using services based there, or which rely on Australian contractors who may be compelled to compromise systems. So any companies boasting of their jurisdiction should not be immune to skepticism about how robust that distinction is in practice.
• lucb1e 7y ago
  > Are we still doing this "Oh, they are nationality so they are spies!" thing? Looks like HN still does that. One of my comments earlier today was calling someone out who said it may or may not be a problem for you that the developers of some IDE are part-Russian, part-Czech[1]. I'm getting mixed up- and downvotes on a comment saying that I find this a harmful generalization (with no replies, by the way, so I don't know if maybe the downvoters didn't like a typo that I made, if they think xenophobia is fine, or anything in between). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21797069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21797069