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Re:How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted m... by echoangle on Sunday July 28, 2024 @08:13AM (#41092727)
You really think the engineers working on this will be personally liable for this? That would honestly surprise me, the worst i can imagine is punishment for the company as an entity.
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Re:How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted m... by fn-mote on Sunday July 28, 2024 @08:34AM (#41092795)
Yes, we do. Just look at how the engineers get thrown under the bus in a high profile case like the VW car-emissions scandal.

Example: engineers blamed is the title in [1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/vw-scandal-top-u-s-ex...

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Re:How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted m... by echoangle on Sunday July 28, 2024 @11:24AM (#41093846)
Saying stuff like that in a hearing to deflect blame doesn’t surprise me, but were any individual engineers punished for this?
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