[tptacek]

Cook didn't lie about it at all. People who didn't watch the whole session are taking one line of his out of context, and ignoring the followup that dealt specifically with this issue.

That, of course, is the problem with these open testimony sessions. Legislators get 5 minutes to pursue random agendas, and everyone knows that the sole purpose of the enterprise is to generate sound bites for people to argue about later on. The real fact-finding is done in writing, and by staffers, not legislators themselves.

[idlewords]

That's not always true; sometimes the Q/A periods are used to establish an evidentiary record, unless that falls under your definition of 'sound bite'. The chance to ask unrehearsed questions of a tech company CEO who has to answer on the spot is valuable, even if seldom used to its full potential.

[innagadadavida]

Worth watching the scenes from The Aviator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYSaImuIgo

The real hearing of Mr. Hughes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDkTkpoyfL0

I'd be very surprised if Tim Cook lied in his testimony. Politicians seem to have a major problem with big tech,. They just don't understand any of this and hopefully they don't make the same mistakes they made with Bell, that basically fragmented the OS stack and caused more problems than it solved.

[vaxman]

Not worth.