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Yes, but they didn’t destroy data. They merely shut off access to it.

• eesmith 4y ago
  Obstruction of justice is also illegal. Your moral point is that you think it's okay to block anyone else from accessing your data, but it's not okay to destroy it? Because that's the only way I can make sense of your comment.
  • Mo3 4y ago
    Yup. Would you consider encryption obstruction of justice?
    • eesmith 4y ago
      You mean a kill switch which encrypts all of the data instead of deleting it or making it inaccessible? Yes. Why is that even a question?
      • kbelder 4y ago
        Because many people would answer differently.
        • eesmith 4y ago
          I completely fail to understand. What is the moral reason for saying that a company can store, use, and profit off of data, with a kill switch that {delete, hides, obscures, encrypts} that data when the government comes with a warrant, or when the courts have authorized discovery for a lawsuit? Isn't that just rife for abuse? "Sorry, we don't have any records of dumping hexavalent chromium. The file deletion we did 10 second ago must have included them, if we had them." That would make for a very different Erin Brockovich movie. More to the point, why would encryption be okay, while deletion is not? Even more to the point, what judge (or jury!) would accept that difference?