Piercing systems
Also via the New York Times comes an article on NSA versus the internet giants like Google. I haven’t a clue (other than skepticism and ‘how does that work?’) as to what it actually means.
Just down the road from Google’s main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become the newest arms race in modern technology: They are making it far more difficult — and far more expensive — for the National Security Agency and the intelligence arms of other governments around the world to pierce their systems.
The NSA contracts with the “usual suspects” who: cannot keep air traffic systems from crashing if a U-2 with a flight plan shows up at an odd, planned flight level, deliver the health.gov site that crashes, and sell broken SW solutions to the pentagon.
I do not think Google engineers need to think that hard to foil NSA eavesdropping!
Ilsm; AGREED.
ONE DAY Google will need to lobby for some legislative favor and in exchange for said favor the cheat codes will be handed over.