Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices

Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 28, 2020 @06:20PM (#25241428)

I have my own razor[0], that I tend to call Hanlon's Handgun: "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by systemic incentives promoting malice". I think it applies here more than Hanlon's Original.

Also, I wasn't thinking about security. I was thinking about intentional abuse of data, that starts with collecting and processing data that doesn't need to be done for a device to function.

[0] - Introduced in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691282, named after me in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691718 :).

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Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by fsflover on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:44AM (#25243861)

You razor is also described here (and called "moloch"): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.

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Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by TeMPOraL on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:02AM (#25244130)

Yeah :). That's one of my favorite articles on the Internet and meditating on these meditations had a big role in shaping my current set of beliefs.

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