Comment Re:sigh (Score 1) 65
I've also seen bots on reddit that will massively downvote everyone in a thread except a select few power users; i'm wonder if a bot-war is soon to break out on reddit because of this...
If you're not part of the solution, there is good money to be had being part of the problem.
I'm betting Apple is only "pretending" to capitulate so they can "be involved" in shaping the legislation and leaving loopholes or sabotaging it.
In the US, a particular form is evidence laundering, where one police officer obtains evidence via means that are in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and then passes it on to another officer, who builds on it and gets it accepted by the court under the good-faith exception as applied to the second officer.[2] This practice gained support after the Supreme Court's 2009 Herring v. United States decision.[2]
(a)Whoever—
(2)intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains—
(C)information from any protected computer;
shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section.
There is only one reason to keep something like this quiet from the public and that is if it is used illicitly for parallel construction.
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