-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/2016 04:16 PM, Rayzer wrote:
Steve Kinney wrote:
Insubordination is always grounds for dismissal
It's NOT insubordination if it's NOT your job description. Telling a coder whose never done anything besides sit at a desk and code they need to do janitorial tasks for instance.
Telling someone who writes crypto that it's also their job to torture test it is going to step on the QA director's toes, ya think? If anyone can be legitimately tasked, it would be the QA department.
The QA department is not responsible to understand how the code (or gadget) works, they are responsible to verify that it does work, and that the "thing that worked" is the thing that ships in the product it goes with. Conversely, whoever designed and implemented the cryptographic system baked into the Apple hardware in question had /better/ be aware of how to attack it: Otherwise, a 3rd party's job when attempting to break the system is likely to be way too easy. The same people who made it /do/ need to be able to inspect their own work, especially during the initial development and implementation process, and the tools to do so will be familiar to them. That makes them just the right folks to ask for advice and assistance when it's time to develop a process for unwrapping the package they made.
It's also dysfunctional to let someone who created the code test it.
That's like letting a machinist who created the part certify it's Mil-spec 415-D compliance.
The ability to monitor the supply chain inbound to the machinist, measure the parts the machinist makes and track them to their final destination in a larger assembly external customer, does not imply the ability to prescribe a specific manufacturing process, make the part in question, or to evaluate its fitness for use for a particular purpose. Those latter functions, and creation of specifications as acceptance criteria, are jobs for design and production engineers.
Otoh Apple COULD change the job description... IF they want to re-negotiate the person's salary.
If that person walked I'd speculate there'd be dozens of companies willing to hire them just because they walked instead of cooperating with the feds.
Dozens who want to hire them, worldwide; hundreds who will never hire them, in their local job market. Generally speaking, business owners, executives and managers regard "whistleblowers" and "refusniks" as proven troublemakers.
they can just hire any skill sets they don't already have on hand
The government can't require them to hire anyone.
A Judge can order just about anyone to do just about anything, subject only to the approval of other Judges up the chain of command /if/ their legal authority to issue the order is challenged.
Further, If the government forces them to add a government paid contractor or govt employee they could sue for damages caused by reputation loss with their commercial vendors who buy and sell their products and material. I'll bet they can easily prove it too! By charting the DIVE iPhone sales take if they publicly cooperate.
All in all the government demanding a private entity do ANYTHING without the full force of the law, not JUST some interpretation by the DOJ backed by some district court hack is a dysfunctional mess that would tie the government up in court until ios is so fucking obsolete no one even remembers what it was.
Advantage: The State.
But as I said, as soon as this is out of the news, and Apple has made enough noise to calm their customers, they'll just do it in secret, as FISC/A requires. If they can.
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