20 Jun
2018
20 Jun
'18
12:25 a.m.
Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
if I was a multi-billion dollar company whose market share depends on my credibility; then when some government agency; wants to pressure me into inserting a back-door, into the hardware or software of my mobile phone design, then I am gambling that credibility against the possibility that some time in the future, it will not be discovered,
At Enron, they called that "I'll be gone; you'll be gone." Nowadays, multinationals can have enough money to just change people's minds directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management ...so they don't need to worry about "being caught" or "looking bad".