On the one hand, it's a breach of trust between him and the users of his software. They trusted that by using his software, their data would be safe from anyone who wanted access to it, even if those people were, ignoring any post-Snowden sentiments for the sake of argument, the good guys. On the other hand, a midnight call from the NSA. Tough to stand there on the phone in your jim-jams at one in the morning and "speak truth to power."
I'm with you, though, the timings and the fact that they knew where he was is pretty strange. I wouldn't be surprised if they waited until he was on holiday precisely to catch him off guard and make him more likely to agree to any requests without thinking too deeply about it.
Was there an emergency at all, or did they just want the source code? I expect we'll never know for sure, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised either way.
I'm with you, though, the timings and the fact that they knew where he was is pretty strange. I wouldn't be surprised if they waited until he was on holiday precisely to catch him off guard and make him more likely to agree to any requests without thinking too deeply about it.
Exactly. If they knew about the algorithm, knew where he was in the middle of nowhere without a cell phone. Why didn't they way to call him "monday at the office" :D ?
As you say:
we'll never know for sure, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised either way.
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On the one hand, it's a breach of trust between him and the users of his software. They trusted that by using his software, their data would be safe from anyone who wanted access to it, even if those people were, ignoring any post-Snowden sentiments for the sake of argument, the good guys. On the other hand, a midnight call from the NSA. Tough to stand there on the phone in your jim-jams at one in the morning and "speak truth to power."
I'm with you, though, the timings and the fact that they knew where he was is pretty strange. I wouldn't be surprised if they waited until he was on holiday precisely to catch him off guard and make him more likely to agree to any requests without thinking too deeply about it.
Was there an emergency at all, or did they just want the source code? I expect we'll never know for sure, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised either way.
Exactly. If they knew about the algorithm, knew where he was in the middle of nowhere without a cell phone. Why didn't they way to call him "monday at the office" :D ?
As you say: