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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 Fr…
Only pedophiles encrypt data?
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 Fr…
Is there any particular reason you chose pedophiles as the architypical information criminal?
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.
Is anyone else excited for this development? This is going to make good reading for months to come...
According to the article (and what I can make of it via Google Translate) this is for tax reasons, because Canada considers Uber Canada an employer and it must collect tax.
I honestly don't understand why they would bother doing this what with an almost certain Obstruction of Justice charge and the fact that it's pretty obvious that money goes from people to workers via Uber.
I wonder how many copycats will spring up in the future, and become Uber2, Uber3,and so on?
In Canada, Uber obviously made a serious mistake. They should not be physically present anywhere. Their strategy does not work, if governments can physically attack them. They are themselves missing the point about themselves.
I see governments everywhere seething and claiming that they want to shut down AirBnb, but where to do that? AirBnb does not have offices or staff over there, and therefore make it impossible for these governments to engage in their core business, that is, to use violence in order to impose their stupidity onto others.
Is anyone else excited for this development? This is going to make good reading for months to come...
Get your popcorn ready, Canada's going to set Uber on fire. According to the article (and what I can make of it via Google Translate) this is for tax reasons, because Canada considers Uber Canada an employer and it must collect tax. I honestly don't understand why they would bother doing this what with an almost certain Obstruction of Justice charge and the fact that it's pretty obvious that money goes from people to…
Are we sure that the government agency really understood what happened here? It may be that a single laptop was doing a file vault update or something, and they jumped all over the place.
Commenters seem to think their servers were being remotely encrypted as well, but I didn't see any info to that effect.