News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide. Parent comment

Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by JorgeGT on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:34PM (#13786209)
> any time you proactively thwart law enforcement, you're inviting a lot of dangerous unintended consequences.

I'm curious, what do you think about Google's "State-sponsored attackers are trying to compromise your account" warning? [1] Maybe it's police officers trying to break into the Gmail account of a pedophile or a terrorist, and Google is thwarting these efforts by warning the suspect.

---

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/google-state-sponso...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by alphonsegaston on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:57PM (#13786453)
That's interesting. I hadn't thought about that set of circumstances. It would take me more time/length than a message board comment to work through the ethics of that, but point well taken.
[ Parent | on HN ]