US Government Pushed Many Tech Firms To Hand Over Source Code (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Apple isn't the only company that has been asked to hand over the source code of its operating system. In an effort to find security flaws that could be used for surveillance or investigations, the U.S. government has made numerous attempts to obtain the source code from other tech companies. From the ZDNet report, "The government has demanded source code in civil cases filed under seal but also by seeking clandestine rulings authorized under the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a person with direct knowledge of these demands told ZDNet. The Justice Department wanted to draw outrage, painting Apple as the criminal. With these hearings held in secret and away from the public gaze, the person said that the tech companies hit by these demands are losing 'most of the time.'"

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Re:Turs out the US of A is no different!

[whoever57]

We "Aspire" to be better... Americans aspire towards Liberty, Freedom of Speech, Free elections and when we fall short we are supposed to feel bad about it.

There is a big block of people who do not aspire to these virtues: Trump supporters. They don't feel bad about racism, they don't feel bad about violence against their opponents, they don't feel bad about suppressing dissent, they don't even feel bad about supporting Nazi-like policies (thank you Godwin!).

Trump, Rubio and Cruz are competing to stake out the most extreme position on torture. Who would use the worst torture. Even Rubio: his personal story is that his father was tortured in Cuba, but, using his own definition, his father was not tortured.