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nathanm412 on Nov 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel subsidiary fined for unlawful export of soft...

This might be an attempt to use existing means to pressure mobile device manufacturers from enabling full device encryption by default. I know the executive branch hasn't been too happy with the latest announcements from Google and Apple.

maxerickson on Nov 3, 2014 [–]

I would speculate they did something closer to providing source code to Chinese defense contractors.

(Which probably doesn't really matter in the scheme things, but it's the sort of thing that will really piss off the U.S. Government)

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