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Devil's advocate: we have a reasonable expectation that governments using due process to obtain warrants for criminal investigations have a right to break and e
by lr4444lr 3y ago
Devil's advocate: we have a reasonable expectation that governments using due process to obtain warrants for criminal investigations have a right to break and enter into digital property or wiretap to catch and prosecute malefactors.
How far do you really expect any tech outfit to vet the legitimacy of the warrants issued?
- acdha 3y agoHow about the legitimacy of the government? Most of the abuses are governments which have a long history of abusing their power and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to say that entire countries should not be trusted with sales.
- lr4444lr 3y agoLegitimacy based on what? Recongition by the UN? Lots of governments even predating the UN have been long accused of rights abuses. How many people affected, and proven so by what basis constitutes infractions beyond moral right to be trusted by NSO. I'm asking people to really grapple with this.
- acdha 3y agoImagine if, say, there was a law saying they could only sell to countries scoring 85 or better: https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores My point being that there’s precedent for restrictions - we don’t sell nukes to anyone, and the companies which make advanced weapons systems have to get things like ITAR approvals. What would be especially powerful would be revocation: if a country is found abusing their access to this tool, they are blocked from purchases of any sort for a decade. Unfortunately, given Israel’s current politics it’s extremely unlikely that anything would happen since there’s no way to write a policy which would continue to allow their own usage.