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Is that an official document with an actual smiley face? What ever happened to the admins / programmers standing up for what is right, or do they just gobble down a paycheck and turn the other way?
If they think they're protecting their country---including their families and friends---then it's easy to imagine how they wouldn't have a problem with this.
Can anyone explain what exactly is meant by "SSL added and removed here! :-)"?
My interpretation is that they've acquired - either via bag job or by unpublished algorithm - Google private keys, and are decrypting and copying traffic immediately before the Google Front End, then impersonating the client to the Google Front End. Presumably, the Google Front End is on Google premises, and Google would be aware of the warrant that let NSA install such a device behind the Google Front End, whereas the peering point in front of the Google Front End (or on the fiber to the Google Front End) would be on Telco premises, and we've seen the Telco's be all to eager to cooperate. Oh, except Qwest, where the CEO found himself in jail.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google was letting information flow between its data centers completely unencrypted until last month . http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-enc... Last month! Think about that for a second. Most people on HN wouldn't send a single file to their own backup provider in the clear. Google was sending gushing torrents of data, presumably including email, IMs, etc, over long distances that way. That's v…
> Google was letting information flow between its data center completely unencrypted until last month. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-enc... . Last month! Over their own private WAN. The analogy would be sending things in the clear over your LAN. [Citation: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/google-onrc-slide... ]
Why didn't they release these documents a long time ago when everyone was racing to judgement that Google, Yahoo, et al were secretly in cahoots with the NSA helping to build drag-net surveillance extranet stuff for them? These are very important revelations! I mean, when Greenwald/Snowden/Guardian released the original PRISM accusations, these slides would have provided a much much more important set of evidence, in…
Of course the cynical view that they held on to it to make some ad-money is not altogether wrong either, just unlikely to be accurate.
Gen. Keith Alexander, asked about it at a Bloomberg event, denied the accusations. "I don't know what the report is," Alexander cautioned, adding the NSA does not "have access to Google servers, Yahoo servers." He said the NSA is "not authorized" to do this, and instead, must "go through a court process." http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/keith-alexander-nsa-re...
It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time. That aside, let me re-make a point I keep making: Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone…
I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable.
It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time. That aside, let me re-make a point I keep making: Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone…
I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable.
Why didn't they release these documents a long time ago when everyone was racing to judgement that Google, Yahoo, et al were secretly in cahoots with the NSA helping to build drag-net surveillance extranet stuff for them? These are very important revelations! I mean, when Greenwald/Snowden/Guardian released the original PRISM accusations, these slides would have provided a much much more important set of evidence, in…
If that were their intent, I would expect them to release slightly faster, at least one significant document per week.