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The centralization of infrastructure has really changed the insider risk profile at that company. A decade ago it was common for a service to own their hardware
by retrovm 7y ago
The centralization of infrastructure has really changed the insider risk profile at that company. A decade ago it was common for a service to own their hardware and to have broad authority over those machines but not so much these days. Nobody wants to own their hardware, everything is uniform and it's easier to spot deviants that way.
Of course many of the changes around that time were in response to the breach by the Chinese government, not only in response to embarrassing privacy incidents. Later improvements came about because of things Snowden published.
- x220 7y agoWhy would Google change because of the Snowden Leaks? They knew about it. They were handing over data to the NSA.
- noident 7y agoThere was some spying by the NSA without their knowledge or consent. Network traffic between their internal networks wasn't encrypted, which enabled snooping. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
- bcrosby95 7y agoIIRC they didn't know about the tap on their international cable and the leaks caused them to prioritize the encryption of traffic on their internal network. Not sure about anything else though.