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Why are people investing in this? Everything about it sounds illegal.
by pfisch 11y ago
Why are people investing in this? Everything about it sounds illegal.
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- tlianza 11y agoYou think this is illegal in China? I can't think of anything the government would approve of more than a giant database of creds at their disposal...
- hiamnew 11y agoAre you talking about the Chinese or the US government here?
- Tloewald 11y agoJust bear in mind that from what we know the German and British governments were all in with the NSA and do even more surveillance on their own citizens than the U.S. does (both, by the way, also using terrorism as the pretext - IRA and Bahder Meinhoff respectively). The U.S. is by far not the worst actor in this arena.
- joosters 11y agoDoesn't Google already have this information? Android certainly used to 'sync' your WIFI passwords with Google, in a format that they could decrypt.
- StavrosK 11y agoIt does indeed.
- rythie 11y agoMuch like YouTube was originally or Uber is now?
- solve 11y agoIllegal-sounding + extremely popular + not actually illegal = Often great investments.
- paulryanrogers 11y agoUntil the law changes
- solve 11y agoGrow big enough fast enough and well liked enough, you become the law.
- hobarrera 11y agoIn a communist country? I very much doubt it.