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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by LeifCarrotson on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:45AM (#16124744)
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a HideDataFromPolice procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a HideDataFrom procedure, to which Police could be given as a parameter."

- Nathaniel Borenstein (paraphrased)

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by mcguire on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:06AM (#16124976)
"The only original rule in engineering ethics was not to compete against other engineers on the basis of price." (Henry Petroski, from memory)

Software engineering doesn't even follow that rule.

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by Bogdanovich on Saturday January 13, 2018 @03:14AM (#16138719)
Not all government officials and police officers are the same. For example Magnitskiy scandal in Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky#Exposing_the_...

TL/DR: police had given the materials taken during the police raids to organized criminals, who used them to fraudulently reclaim $230m of the taxes previously paid by the company.

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Re:Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark by rlanday on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:11PM (#16126163)
Come on, software engineers love writing crypto software to hide information from the government…
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