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Moar Uber sneaky tricks in the news
« on: January 12, 2018, 01:34:31 PM »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-secret-tool-for-keeping-the-cops-in-the-dark

So Uber sort of pulled a Volkswagen with their software, with a secret app that locked up all the computers if the cops showed up with a search warrant.
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Re: Moar Uber sneaky tricks in the news
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2018, 02:17:38 PM »
I'm not seeing a problem....
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Re: Moar Uber sneaky tricks in the news
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2018, 11:03:06 PM »
Good for them.

I wish more tech companies had this honeybadger .gov can FOAD attitude.
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Re: Moar Uber sneaky tricks in the news
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2018, 09:19:36 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on January 12, 2018, 11:03:06 PM
I wish more tech companies had this honeybadger .gov can FOAD attitude.

Too much money at risk.  Even Perot Systems, which was decidedly anti-FedGov-Contract when I was there in the mid-90s, was sucking at the DOD teat by the mid 2000s.  The company I work for now has a Federal division that just signed a ginormous GSA contract.  No tech company that has a chance at landing a FedGov contract is going to pull what Uber did, nor will they take a Freedom-first stance WRT China.  Gotta keep the shareholders happy...

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Re: Moar Uber sneaky tricks in the news
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2018, 11:37:33 AM »
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Uber told the court it never deleted its files. It cooperated with a second search warrant that explicitly covered the files and agreed to collect provincial taxes for each ride.
Also, if most of the data is on remote servers, it pretty much cuts off access by the onsite computers. 

Sounds like a defense against fishing expeditions using broad warrants. 
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