Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members

Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by BadHumans on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:32AM (#42077508)

I just assumed this was already happening despite what they publicly said.

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by double0jimb0 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:34AM (#42077528)

May as well get a little national PR out of it given current geopolitics.

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by Dah00n on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:46AM (#42077645)

Is anti PR still PR?

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by BadHumans on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:02AM (#42077823)

This is great news for a lot of people including the party that just won the election.

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by rgbswan on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:37AM (#42077552)

Generally the correct way to think about news like this, I believe.

Like when Apple pretended to not work with the agencies when Apple hardware needed to be unlocked ...

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by Noble6 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:46AM (#42077640)

Are you talking about the California shooting in 2015, where the FBI asked Apple to decrypt the phone? The way I recall it being resolved was some contractor decrypted it after Apple refused to

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by ghostpepper on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:56AM (#42077756)

it was Mark Dowd's firm, Azimuth Security - not just some contractor, he literally wrote the book on memory safety vulnerabilities

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by SoftTalker on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:04AM (#42077847)

> some contractor decrypted it after Apple refused to

Or that was the story they all agreed to tell.

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by fsflover on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:47AM (#42077658)

And before that, Snowden leaks suggested that Apple worked with NSA.

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