Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid

Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by aikah on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:34PM (#9615580)

wow, this clearly is criminal behavior from Uber HQ. Instead of fully complying with the investigation and using legal means to contest it they are behaving like a bunch of pedophiles trying to encrypt their hard drives so the police cannot get to their kiddy porn stash, despicable...

edit: obviously i'm not against data encryption it's just funny how encryption is used in this case to obstruct justice, article in French, obviously but the headings are saying something like this :

    SF Uber engineers attempted to remotely encrypt the 
    data of Uber Canada computers during a search at Uber 
    Canada headquarters led by the Québec IRS in Montréal
    last week.

    Search at Uber Canada's office

    Last May 14, dozens of investigators from "Revenue Québec"
    proceeded in searching computers at Uber Canadas's office, 
    on Notre-Dame street. Investigators were looking for evidence
    showing that Uber Canada is violating tax laws

    Around 10:40 am, one of the investigators noticed 
    that "some handsets, computers and tablets 
    were remotely turned on" during the search. Another 
    female investigator, who was performing a second  
    search warrant in another office, noticed the 
    same exact phenomenon, also at 10:40 am."computers      
    were being remotely accessed and manipulated, we took 
    control of them then turned them down given the    
    emergency and the high risk of remote data
    manipulation", can be read in the case made by judge   
    Jean-Pierre Braun

(work in progress)

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by placeybordeaux on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:39PM (#9615601)

Is there any particular reason you chose pedophiles as the architypical information criminal?

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by jrockway on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:42PM (#9615617)

Probably to outrage people and incite trolling.

Encryption may or may not protect you against law enforcement, but that's not the only use case: it also protects you from employees who forget their laptop at Starbucks, disgruntled system administrators, and so on. Law enforcement may be able to compel you to decrypt the systems, but laptop thieves cannot.

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by woah on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:40PM (#9615603)

Only pedophiles encrypt data?

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by tzs on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:29PM (#9615758)

Nothing he wrote implies that. He offered pedophiles as an example of a class that uses encryption to aid crime, not as an exhaustive list of all classes that use encryption.

If I wrote that in a recent program I used a functional approach, like they do in Lisp, would you think I'm claiming that Lisp is the only language with functional programming support? Because that's the kind of error you made in reading his statement.

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by StavrosK on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:41PM (#9615610)

In a world where encryption is sexy...

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