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

Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by StavrosK on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:36AM (#16124612)

I think you can reasonably substitute "developer" for "person" and the grandparent's point still stands.

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by mynameisvlad on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:40AM (#16124683)

Sure, the point I was making is this whole thread is focused on these evil developers who are unethical and immoral and horrible for what they did.

Which is the wrong approach. We don't know enough details to know what they knew or didn't know going into the project. If Uber at the highest level is okay with deceiving the government, then it's not crazy to think they wouldn't inform their developers about the potentially illegal things they were going to do. And this was all in 2015-2016 when Uber was still a "scrappy startup" in the people's eyes and not the monster it's been exposed to be.

However, we 100% know of people who did know about the project, specifically the higher ups. Our anger should be directed at them because they have no excuse.

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by StavrosK on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:49AM (#16124812)

Oh I'm firmly in the camp of "the fish stinks from the head" (I don't know if this Greek proverb translates, but I think there's a similar one in English).

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by throwanem on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:29AM (#16125163)

I've heard it with "rots" in place of "stinks", but otherwise verbatim.

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