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It reads a bit like they're trying to recruit NSA employees to come work for Google...
They'd have a tough sell to get the NSA employees I would think.
Time for some trust-building with the community, after that um, unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted. About Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft etc, we have seen the list, Ive got to say, scumbags. They sold us all out and threw us under the bus. Lavabit - a simple company put up more of a fight than a multi billion dollar giant. Never forget.
Security is a big issue for all these corporates to the bare minimum degree that would make most people feel secure enough. I don't buy it anymore.
It reads a bit like they're trying to recruit NSA employees to come work for Google...
Hmmm... job-for-life with enforced zealous national patriotism, vs five-year job with enforced zealous corporate patriotism (and everything is so god-damned colourful). They'd have a tough sell to get the NSA employees I would think.
Time for some trust-building with the community, after that um, unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted. About Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft etc, we have seen the list, Ive got to say, scumbags. They sold us all out and threw us under the bus. Lavabit - a simple company put up more of a fight than a multi billion dollar giant. Never forget.
"unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted." [citation needed] Specifically for the willingly accepted part.
Time for some trust-building with the community, after that um, unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted. About Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft etc, we have seen the list, Ive got to say, scumbags. They sold us all out and threw us under the bus. Lavabit - a simple company put up more of a fight than a multi billion dollar giant. Never forget.
"unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted." [citation needed] Specifically for the willingly accepted part.
There's also the fact that Google only started challenging the FISA court post-Snowden. To my knowledge, they're not even challenging the unconstitutional spying, just the gag order preventing Google from telling you how frequently Google turns over your data to the feds.
This isn't just some theoretical, might be spying on "those people" sort of thing either. If you're reading this website, you probably are/have been a target:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/03/20/hunt-...
Since Google openly acknowledges that Google never really deletes anything from gmail and other services (disk is cheap), they're providing information about you that even you have long forgotten.
And finally, if you say "I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear" then you have completely missed the point of how this stuff works. Remember they target you, everyone who contacts you, and everyone who contacts that extended group.
With that information, they find out who you love, and which ones of those people have pressure points. "Viraptor, it has come to our attention that your father is evading taxes. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your father, would you? We would like you to do some work for us in your role as sysadmin. Then we can forget about that incident..."
2) Will Google take bug submissions from 3rd parties and offer any degree of anonymity and/or protection for the bug-finder? I routinely come across gaping security flaws but when we have an over-zealous judicial system and the CFAA, it's often not worth the personal risk to get something fixed.
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Hmmm... job-for-life with enforced zealous national patriotism, vs five-year job with enforced zealous corporate patriotism (and everything is so god-damned colourful). They'd have a tough sell to get the NSA employees I would think.
Don't forget the part where they make significantly more money than working for a federal acronym.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"unpleasant discovery that NSA has been up in that Google, and Google willingly accepted." [citation needed] Specifically for the willingly accepted part.
That fibers have been tapped by state actors was well known pre-Snowden (I recall reading a story about how subs were used in Russia etc), yet Google only completed encrypting their private fibers post-Swnoden.