Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts

Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by pmontra on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:14AM (#17372040)

It can be not to leave all of that cake to its main competitors: if Google takes a slice from Amazon and Microsoft, they will grow a little less faster. This applies to every sector, not only government and military.

If you ever played boardgames (especially German style) maybe you'll remember some games when only one player developed some resource unchecked by the other ones. This usually leads to an easy win for that player. Not easy to notice it in the earlier turns but then the differential in income (whatever it is in that game) is so obvious that everybody understands the game is over well before the end.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by rusk on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:45AM (#17372470)

This makes absolute sense actually. But in one sense it's a game, and in another sense we mostly accept that war is a travesty, and generally very bad news for a civilian population. Analog to this is society, customers, employess etc. why are we tolerating an approach to business that is destructive for all but a few?

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by throwaway2048 on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:15AM (#17372046)

We Must Not Allow a Tunnel Gap!

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by codeisawesome on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:41AM (#17372205)

This comment taken along with the parent makes it so much more clear to me why everything has to be a competition between world powers... especially in far, far away lands.

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