Re:Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, sh...
by ohhnoodont on Monday January 15, 2018 @10:43PM
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Montreal struggles with far more corruption than your average Canadian city. That Uber manages to operate in that mob town is a miracle.
Re:Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, sh...
by bsder on Monday January 15, 2018 @08:43PM
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Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine fall below the middle of the corruption perceptions list. China and Morocco fall about the center of that list.
I can easily see this tool having been built for operating in those kinds of countries.
What's upsetting people is that this got used in a country which is nominally not corrupt in order to hide from "proper" law enforcement.
If this was being used to hide from a raid in Russia, people would be cheering instead.
Re:Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, sh...
by jsjohnst on Monday January 15, 2018 @10:11PM
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> If this was being used to hide from a raid in Russia, people would be cheering instead.
Personally, I wouldn’t be cheering. I’m of the mind that if you’re going to do business in a country, you can’t choose to ignore the local laws and expect zero repercussions.
That said, do I care that Uber built this system, nope! But I would laugh if it backfired on them and got them into more legal trouble.
Since when was Canada considered a lousy jurisdiction? Last I checked, most of the jurisdictions they operate in are no worse than the US. Unless you’re saying that all first world countries are lousy jurisdictions, I think you are being rather hyperbolic.