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"Politically problematic" is such a headache to read Does the code contain any decode of garbled strings and then make web requests? Do the Individual Contrib
by nullish_signal 4y ago
"Politically problematic" is such a headache to read
Does the code contain any decode of garbled strings and then make web requests?
Do the Individual Contributors (or Companies) have a history of Theft, Hacking, or Espionage?
Are we putting this software into police or military or infrastructure, and should we look at it 100x more carefully?
Another HN post asked "Why aren't bans transitive" (With the hopes that nobody trades with the bad guys anymore) And I responded "Because soon lifting a Sandwich to your Mouth would be a Criminal Act", and similar logic applies here.
Hell, even our """swift""" TikTok "ban" only affects Federal Employees, and not their teen children or relatives, who actually use TikTok and may still know things that foreign Intelligence wants to know