Russia wants Apple, SAP to cooperate against foreign spying

[Kent Sharkey]

Reuters[^]:

Russia has proposed that Apple Inc and SAP hand the government access to their source code to make sure their widely used products are not tools for spying on state institutions.

Is this the new thing then? Everybody gets to look at all the code now?

[Lost User]

So, trust demands open source? :-D Whouldavethunk?

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

[Sharath C V]

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

So, trust demands open source?

Good one!! Lol :)

[Dan Neely]

Dailytech[^] reported that Russia was arguing its demands were reasonable because MS let a Russian security firm look at their code, so Apple/SAP shouldn't have any problem doing the same thing. However MS has allowed a number of security/academic groups access to all of their code for a long time. My question to that is, do Apple or SAP have any sort of equivalent programs? IF they already allow a number of 3rd parties access to their code, adding a Russian partner isn't prima facie unreasonable. However if they don't currently let any 3rd parties have access to their core codebases the Russian demand looks a lot more heavy handed.

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