Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks

coolnumbr12 writes "In a new leak published by the Guardian, New York Times and ProPublica, Edward Snowden revealed new secret programs by the NSA and GCHQ to decrypt programs designed to keep information private online. In response to NSA's Bullrun and GCHQ's Edgehill, Google said it has accelerated efforts to build new encryption software that is impenetrable to the government agencies. Google has not provided details on its new encryption efforts, but did say it would be 'end-to-end,' meaning that all servers and fiber-optic lines involved in delivering information will be encrypted."

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Re:Meaningless ...

[FriendlyLurker]

Because all government's want to spy on their citizens. European governments used to be the best at fascism but have been playing catch up to the US for a while now.

But do all government's of the world wish to permit industrial espionage on their soil, or is it political power first over protecting national business interests...

Statement by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper on Allegations of Economic Espionage

"...It is not a secret that the Intelligence Community collects information about economic and financial matters, and terrorist financing...."

Yes. Meaningless.

[Cid Highwind]

TFA is pretty short on technical details, but this sounds like it's end-to-end between Google datacenters, not customers. So when the NSA comes a-knocking with the inevitable secret court order to hand over keys, they'll be right back to capturing everything and filtering on the NSA side.