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Re:Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, sh... by bsder on Monday January 15, 2018 @08:43PM (#16155131)
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.

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Re:Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, sh... by jsjohnst on Monday January 15, 2018 @10:11PM (#16155504)
> 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.

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