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If you read this literally, you could get away with leaking state secrets as long as you're visiting a relative while doing it. Github cannot be expected to re
by raziel2p 6y ago
If you read this literally, you could get away with leaking state secrets as long as you're visiting a relative while doing it.
Github cannot be expected to reliably differentiate between the coworker who just checked the status of a PR on a webapp versus the employee who opened a crucial piece of encryption code to leak it to the Iranian military or whatever.
- koheripbal 6y agoThe above is not law. The law is more detailed. This is a FAQ that should be interpreted in a reasonable fashion, not with an extreme use-case.
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y agoIf that's the case, then the problem isn't Github, but of the organization having Iranian intelligence assets on staff. And the whole idea of the government regulating encryption and it being weaponized is overdone.
- Siira 6y agoSpies can send information from anywhere in the world to anywhere else, so I don’t see how they being in a specific location at all matters.
- saagarjha 6y agoA spy could also just clone the repo and travel to Iran, too.
- hoppla 6y agoI do not see why a geoip filter do not suffice. GitHub should not be the one to interpret the whole complex picture.
- mcguire 6y agoThis is an economic sanction against Iran; it has nothing to do with state, or corporate, secrets.