[brookst]

It’s the lying that gets companies in trouble.

The claim is that Google has implemented a security weakness and lied about it in claims to customers and investors.

Show me another company that did this, was exposed, and was not sued.

[alt227]

> It’s the lying that gets companies in trouble.

It isnt if the government have asked them to lie.

[tsimionescu]

You are extremely naive if you think a company the size of Google or Microsoft or Apple will face any serious consequence from lying about E2EE actually being open to various governments.

They have lawyers aplenty, governments would file amicus briefs "explaining" E2EE and so on. Worse case they'll settle for a pittance.

[brookst]

So all you’ve got is hypotheticals that coincidentally confirm your biases? These are giant companies. Show me where a civil suit for lying about a product’s security was defended by this kind of claim.

[ipaddr]

Those companies never get sued? Never face class action lawsuits either?

[1oooqooq]

yahoo sued the govt and was able to go public almost a decade later. as i said, history already proved that argument wrong.