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[ NNSquad ] Wired: US Spy Programs May Break the Internet if Not Reformed, Google Leader Says
Wired: US Spy Programs May Break the Internet if Not Reformed, Google Leader Says
(Wired): http://www.wired.com/2014/10/us-spy-programs-may-break-internet-reformed-google-leader-says/
In a year of profoundly disturbing disclosures, Schmidt said the
one that struck companies the hardest were reports about the
tapping of undersea cables used to transmit data between the
overseas data centers of U.S. companies. To put it in simple
terms, Schmidt said, this was essentially hacking--the same kind
of state-sponsored hacking the US has condemned in other
countries, and it rallied companies to take action. "I think that
put the relationship between the industry and the government on
profoundly different footing," he said. "The disclosure brought
to light that there was this effort outside of what we all
thought of as the appropriate legal process to obtain user data."
The effect has led companies to play essentially a game of
whack-a-mole with the government, working to find technological
solutions that "force the government to come to us through the
legal means [that are] the product of a democratic process," he
said. By "investing as heavily as we are through security, we're
forcing that access through those laws to be the only way in."
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--Lauren--
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