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The Feds cracked El Chapo's encrypted comms network by flipping his system admin

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    I'm following this link with the survey questions: Have you ever felt like you might be abetting your employer in activities that are against the law in your locality? What would make you feel...

    I'm following this link with the survey questions:

    Have you ever felt like you might be abetting your employer in activities that are against the law in your locality?

    What would make you feel ethically obliged to quit or turn in your employer?

    I once quit an employer who was forcing me to abet software piracy, violate CAN-SPAM, commit mail/bank fraud, tax evasion, and provide insecure data handling for legally protected information. Not quite El Chapo, but feel free to AMA.

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      Yes! And insert perpetually relevant XKCD. But demands to circumvent encryption aren't due to failure of understanding, but rather the authoritarian impulse. No need to ask, when you can just take...

      Yes! And insert perpetually relevant XKCD.

      But demands to circumvent encryption aren't due to failure of understanding, but rather the authoritarian impulse. No need to ask, when you can just take the data at will.

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