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Re:Judge Tells Uber Lawyer: ‘It Looks Like You Covered This Up’ by gpm on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:06AM (#15816803)
You can't accuse GP of twisting the 'self destructing message' app thing when the original source says it was for malicious purposes (you could arguably accuse the original source, except...). I'm also highly skeptical that it is at all legal to use such an app for communications you are legally required to preserve because you are aware of the possibility of a lawsuit.

> Jacobs: Uber's use of encrypted ephemeral systems was dessigned to protect sensitive info and ensure we didn’t create a paper trail that wd come back to haunt the co in any potential civil or criminal investigation. [0]

> Judge quotes Jacob's atty letter: Uber employees went to Pittsburgh to educate the AV group about ephemeral, encrypted communications "to prevent Uber's unlawful schemes from seeing the light of day" [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/CSaid/status/935555627815813120

[1] https://twitter.com/CSaid/status/935569588309327878

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Re:Judge Tells Uber Lawyer: ‘It Looks Like You Covered This Up’ by dmix on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:12PM (#15817387)
The Jacob person you're quoting was demanding money to not expose such information in an 'extortionist' style attempt... and he did take the money and he did keep quiet. He wasn't some good-guy whistleblower, he took advantage of his inside knowledge after he was fired for personal gain. While then rejoining Uber after the fact and continuing to work there.

In that letter, likely written by his attorney who also got $3 million, had a clear incentive to twist the narrative of using an app like Wickr to make it seem as malicious and damaging as possible.

Uber also went to federal prosecutors with his letter to preempt him from using it for further personal gain. They didn't try to hide from it.

I'm not saying it wasn't used for malicious purposes but I'd take those allegations in the letter with a grain of salt.

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Re:Judge Tells Uber Lawyer: ‘It Looks Like You Covered This Up’ by bob_theslob646 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:41PM (#15818289)
>I'm not saying it wasn't used for malicious purposes but I'd take those allegations in the letter with a grain of salt.

Seriously? What ever happened to due process?

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