So a small basically unknown company, appears to have utilized all manner of intimidation tactics, to include accusations of criminal activity, against a group of IT professionals who were merely trying to strengthen a product by identifying a vulnerability and discussing it.
If that is what a small basically unknown company is capable of doing to basically avoid embarrassment, can you imagine what a mega-corp with political power is capable of? Downright scary when you think about it.
Sure, but the failure of governments has an atrocious outcome statistically when you consider the odds for a democracy or anything respecting human rights to come out of it.
Despotism and dictatorships are physically stable. Democracies are metastable.
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
Corporate Arrogance, Amplified. (Score:5, Insightful)
So a small basically unknown company, appears to have utilized all manner of intimidation tactics, to include accusations of criminal activity, against a group of IT professionals who were merely trying to strengthen a product by identifying a vulnerability and discussing it.
If that is what a small basically unknown company is capable of doing to basically avoid embarrassment, can you imagine what a mega-corp with political power is capable of? Downright scary when you think about it.
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Re:Corporate Arrogance, Amplified. (Score:1)
Don't just put companies in that category. Gov't is the most too big to fail there is and they've proven a willingness to go further.
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Sure, but the failure of governments has an atrocious outcome statistically when you consider the odds for a democracy or anything respecting human rights to come out of it.
Despotism and dictatorships are physically stable. Democracies are metastable.