Google and NSA Teaming Up

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Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 4, 2010 @02:28AM from the meet-my-big-brother dept.

i_frame writes "The Washington Post reports that 'Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack.'"

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Conversation between Google and NSA by elrous0 · 2010-02-04 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

NSA: We need complete access to your gmail system.
Google: Alright! This is to help us with the recent China break-in, right?
NSA: Um, sure...

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1. Re:Conversation between Google and NSA by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-04 02:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Pfft, I have long held that Google is just a front company for the NSA. Now it seems they are comfortable taking that relationship to the next level, out of the closet so to speak. (Adjusts his tin foil hat and returns to his regular viewing)
2. Re:Conversation between Google and NSA by JWSmythe · 2010-02-04 02:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They running Windows on their desktops, the NSA already had access.
  
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joint-venture by muckracer · 2010-02-04 02:35 · Score: 5, Funny

As part of the agreement a new slogan to be used jointly by both Google and the NSA has been implemented:
"No Such Evil" ...
1. Re:joint-venture by derGoldstein · 2010-02-04 03:51 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I thought it'd be:
  "Google/NSA: Your privacy is in good hands, with us."
  or
  "Google/NSA: Organizing the world's information; and more*."
  or
  "Google/NSA: Collaboration has a new meaning."
  
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Shocked. Shocked, I Tell You. by RobotRunAmok · 2010-02-04 02:43 · Score: 4, Funny

If anyone thinks this is the first collaboration between Google and the NSA, I've got a wall in China I want to sell you.
Re:Really it means... by horza · 2010-02-04 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

It makes sense. I am having a professional burglar come around tomorrow to check my locks. I told him not to come around tonight as I won't be in.
Phillip.

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No evil by McGiraf · 2010-02-04 03:23 · Score: 4, Funny

Do no evil, with a little help from Satan.
Security is NOT an issue with The Cloud. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-04 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.
The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.
And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.
My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.
1. Re:Security is NOT an issue with The Cloud. by Lord+Ender · 2010-02-04 05:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Oh come on! You can't just throw terminology around like that without metrics to back it up! What does Gartner have to say about it? What magic quadrant is it in?
  
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Re:Could be worse... by derGoldstein · 2010-02-04 03:46 · Score: 2, Funny

Schmidt: "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship..."

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Re:Really it means... by MadKeithV · 2010-02-04 04:16 · Score: 4, Funny

I prefer parallel bowls myself.
Re:why NSA hate? by Leebert · 2010-02-04 05:25 · Score: 2, Funny

These are the good guys (unlike the FBI, who are media-whoring, civil-rights-abusing porno-police).
Dick Gordon: National Security Agency.
Martin Bishop: Ah. You're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
Dick Gordon: No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance.
Martin Bishop: Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators.
Dick Gordon: No, that's the CIA. We protect our government's communications, we try to break the other fella's codes. We're the good guys, Marty.
Martin Bishop: Gee, I can't tell you what a relief that is... Dick.
(shamelessly copied/pasted from IMDB...)