[Cryptography] Two more Apple amicus briefs

[Allen]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

> -- a whole bunch of tech companies:
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> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2746620/Apple-Amicus-Brief-by-Airbnb-EBay-Twitter-and.pdf
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> -- ATT:
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> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2746626/Apple-Amicus-Brief-From-AT-amp-T.pdf
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Someone should file an amicus brief that basically says the FBI violated
federal contracting rules by not putting the hacking work out to
competitive bid through the RFP process, and therefore it's request to
force Apple to do this work violates federal law and should be struck down
as against public policy.  I'm not actually familiar enough with the
federal contracting process to know if that is true or not, but it seems
plausible, and it also seems there are many companies that would like to
have a crack at doing this work instead of being forced to do it.  At
minimum, the FBI would find out through the RFP process if what it seeks
might be available through another channel and therefore Apple's assistance
is not required.
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