When the Schmidt hits The Man: Look what the NSA made Google do In an interview at the BoxDEV developer event in San Francisco today, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said end-to-end encryption for services like Google's is the solution to mass online government surveillance. "What do you think of the state of cyber security in the USA today?" Box CEO Aaron Levie asked Schmidt during …
Oh but they don't invade privacy and surveil you... according to them, they just take the information you freely give them and process it. Er.... hmmm... conundrum.
Hey, El Reg... can we get a dictionary of Googlespeak? After the Google guy at the RSA conference pointed out that words don't mean what we think they do, we need to have them defined and maybe translate what Schmidt said.
translate what Schmidt said
Easy: we use encryption so only we can see your data, so give us more. Only we can have a good rummage, which means we can charge anyone else who wants it (which is what turned the NSA problem into opportunities for revenue, so thank y'all for giving generously).
HTH
" We know that it worked because now all the people who were snooping are complaining."
ha ha ahaha ah ahahahha a hah aahha aha ahah ha ahaa ....
" We know that it worked because now all the people who were snooping are complaining."
ha ha ahaha ah ahahahha a hah aahha aha ahah ha ahaa ....
Who wrote that? The PR dept? Your chums at the NSA? Ricky Gervais? ha ha ahaha ah ahahahha a hah aahha aha ahah ha ahaa ....
You must think we were all born yesterday. Pull the other one shit for brains - it's got bells on.
The problem with everything encrypted is that nothing can be cached which means far more data needs to be transmitted.
All the NSA has achieved is slowing down the internet. If the government had an ounce of common sense tougher rules for spying would actually make things easier for everyone, NSA included. If people didn't need to worry about universal spying, they wouldn't need to install encryption on everything. If everything wasn't encrypted, the internet would run faster and the NSA wouldn't have the problems (once they met the legal requirements).
The problem is that now that they overreached, it can never go back to the way it was.
"In the future, the entire world will be defined by a smartphone or tablet – Android or Apple – a very fast networking connection, and cloud computing,"
No, it won't. Neither device is remotely as useful as a desktop PC for day-to-day office tasks. When I'm working, I want a big desktop-style 24" monitor (or two, in fact). I don't want to try and administer my whole network from a 6" phone screen, or an 10" tablet; and I don't want to try and do basic office work on a device that has to pop an on-screen keyboard up over what I'm trying to type.
"Almost all the enterprise software that you use does not meet most of those criteria."
Yes, and there's reasons WHY enterprise software doesn't.
As to the insane bollocks that followed about 'segregation not being required anymore', 'enterprises consisted of firewalls and nothing else', 'artificial distinction between consumers and businesses eventually goes away' etc, it's just meaningless waffle. This borders on being a 'No computer will ever need more than 64k of RAM' moment, tbh.
You should take the time to MITM your phone. Just one of the MANY curious things......Every few minutes, your phone connects to an IP address and transmits your LAT/LONG. Whois has that IP address belonging to Google.......EVERY FEW MINUTES.
Ya spent several hundred on your trusty phone. Spend $200 on Burp Suite Pro, learn to use it and see what your phone is doing in the background. Hey, what was that connection to China??
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