Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark

Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by rm_-rf_slash on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:27AM (#16124498)

Apple protects its customers. Encryption that stops cops also stops criminals.

Uber is only protecting its profits. The customers are incidental to its blatant lawbreaking.

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by letsgetphysITal on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:36AM (#16124621)

Apple protects its profits. Encryption that enables privacy protections for consumers also stops cops investigating crime.

Apple is not your friend and does not have your best interest at heart. It is a company like Facebook, Microsoft, Ford, Boeing... They all just want the money. If making hard to break encryption sells more units, then that is the only motivation.

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by IBM on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:54AM (#16124866)

There's no evidence that Apple's ideas about privacy or encryption have any positive effect on sales. The only people who might even be aware of it are tech people, and that doesn't move the needle at all. See the tech people gripes about the Macbook Pro, which went on to sell well anyway.

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by nyolfen on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:36AM (#16124614)

do you think apple is motivated out of the goodness of its collective heart?

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by mikestew on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:24PM (#16136428)

Do you propose that it is impossible to "do the right thing" and make a profit?

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