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Backdoors for a calendar app no one's heard of? No offence, but bigger fish to fry. And why would the company breach GDPR if it's making such a fuss about sticking to it?

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Although maybe Cronofy is not yet well-known, Adam Bird was also founder of Esendex which became pretty huge (Commify that is now known as)

Your logic is that a government would want a backdoor in this app because another app was successful? Just because the same founder? That's a lot of hopeful backdoors - poor return on investment for the government. I've worked on bigger projects than that without backdoors. "Pretty huge" is relative I guess - I certainly wouldn't describe it as that. I seriously doubt that app had a government backdoor, and neither will this one. Was that an attempted appeal to authority?

Ah, all I meant was just that since Esendex got pretty huge (e:g IIRC they did bulk texting for the Obama campaign), given that its the same founder, perhaps Cronofy could end up big too. I guess my angle was simply, this is potentially a large company, his previous one was (and apparently a decent place to work according to people I know) and its a great shame if such a good tech business is driven to moving to a different country . BTW it wasn't me that downvoted you, it was a fair argument :)

Having access to the calendar of e.g. the Airbus management would be very useful for industrial espionage.

Snowed proved that the US used backdoors in Microsoft products to access calendar entries snd emails to give Boeing an edge during negotiations.

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