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wow, this clearly is criminal behavior from Uber HQ. Instead of fully complying with the investigation and using legal means to contest it they are behaving lik

by aikah 11y ago

wow, this clearly is criminal behavior from Uber HQ. Instead of fully complying with the investigation and using legal means to contest it they are behaving like a bunch of pedophiles trying to encrypt their hard drives so the police cannot get to their kiddy porn stash, despicable... edit: obviously i'm not against data encryption it's just funny how encryption is used in this case to obstruct justice, article in French, obviously but the headings are saying something like this : SF Uber engineers attempted to remotely encrypt the data of Uber Canada computers during a search at Uber Canada headquarters led by the Québec IRS in Montréal last week. Search at Uber Canada's office Last May 14, dozens of investigators from "Revenue Québec" proceeded in searching computers at Uber Canadas's office, on Notre-Dame street. Investigators were looking for evidence showing that Uber Canada is violating tax laws Around 10:40 am, one of the investigators noticed that "some handsets, computers and tablets were remotely turned on" during the search. Another female investigator, who was performing a second search warrant in another office, noticed the same exact phenomenon, also at 10:40 am."computers were being remotely accessed and manipulated, we took control of them then turned them down given the emergency and the high risk of remote data manipulation", can be read in the case made by judge Jean-Pierre Braun (work in progress)

woah 11y ago
Only pedophiles encrypt data?
- StavrosK 11y ago
  In a world where encryption is sexy...
- tzs 11y ago
  Nothing he wrote implies that. He offered pedophiles as an example of a class that uses encryption to aid crime, not as an exhaustive list of all classes that use encryption. If I wrote that in a recent program I used a functional approach, like they do in Lisp, would you think I'm claiming that Lisp is the only language with functional programming support? Because that's the kind of error you made in reading his statement.
placeybordeaux 11y ago
Is there any particular reason you chose pedophiles as the architypical information criminal?
- jrockway 11y ago
  Probably to outrage people and incite trolling. Encryption may or may not protect you against law enforcement, but that's not the only use case: it also protects you from employees who forget their laptop at Starbucks, disgruntled system administrators, and so on. Law enforcement may be able to compel you to decrypt the systems, but laptop thieves cannot.

by aikah 11y ago

woah 11y ago

Only pedophiles encrypt data?

StavrosK 11y ago
In a world where encryption is sexy...
tzs 11y ago
Nothing he wrote implies that. He offered pedophiles as an example of a class that uses encryption to aid crime, not as an exhaustive list of all classes that use encryption. If I wrote that in a recent program I used a functional approach, like they do in Lisp, would you think I'm claiming that Lisp is the only language with functional programming support? Because that's the kind of error you made in reading his statement.

placeybordeaux 11y ago

Is there any particular reason you chose pedophiles as the architypical information criminal?

jrockway 11y ago
Probably to outrage people and incite trolling. Encryption may or may not protect you against law enforcement, but that's not the only use case: it also protects you from employees who forget their laptop at Starbucks, disgruntled system administrators, and so on. Law enforcement may be able to compel you to decrypt the systems, but laptop thieves cannot.