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Can’t Apple pay the bounty through a third country to avoid the embargo like the way that Shell and BP sell Russian oil to US companies?
by mediumsmart 2y ago
Can’t Apple pay the bounty through a third country to avoid the embargo like the way that Shell and BP sell Russian oil to US companies?
- UncleMeat 2y agoImagine that meeting. You run a bug bounty program. When you set it up you talked with a bunch of lawyers and they wrote the language saying that you can't run afoul of sanctions. But you'd like an exception so you shoot an email to the lawyer for your organization. "Hey Alice, I'd like some legal advice. I know the law says we can't pay companies in Russia but could we like, you know, set up a shell company that we can route some money through?"
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoEven if they could, I doubt Apple wants anything they could be remotely construed as attempting to bypass said sanctions. Even if everything is above board, there’s also the risk of it being used as a sound bite by a politician to sway the public. So however ridiculous it might seem at face value, from their perspective it makes total sense to just not even touch the problem at all with a 10 thousand foot pole