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Thank you for answering this question! I wish cloud storage providers would be much more transparent about their security to allow user's to decide which option

Thank you for answering this question! I wish cloud storage providers would be much more transparent about their security to allow user's to decide which option provides them with the proper security. Right now it is hard to know whether or not what you said applies equally to other cloud providers. Also, (no discredit to you) you are a random person on the internet so your claim is far from 100% validated. edit: spelling

ryanobjc 10y ago
That's fair - random person on the internet, I get it. I have common usernames on the various services you know and love, so feel free to dig about. As for transparency, there is a big push to increase the trust in Google Cloud. We're a big company, and it's hard to get that personal connection to build the trust. I think our blog is trying to get this info out, here is a good recent one: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/how-we-secure-our-infrastructure.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/how-we-secure-o... My opinion is that Google is a very honest company. These whitepapers are our attempt to accurately describe what steps we are taking, in good faith, to ensure Google Cloud is the best, and most secure place, to do your computing on. As a personal anecdote, I once worked for Google (and quit, and came back) about 8 years ago. The difference in how secretive we are is night and day. I can say the word 'borg' in public, and even tell you what it is. And this is accelerating under Cloud, because we know that big enterprises aren't going to use us without a lot of details and assurances.
- X86BSD 10y ago
  Based on Googles track record with Android, and the atrocious deployment of TV on Google fiber, as well as a host of other examples of Googles beliefs and competencies, Google has a better chance of putting a person on Mars than me trusting them with anything. Time will tell what happens to Google.

ryanobjc 10y ago

That's fair - random person on the internet, I get it. I have common usernames on the various services you know and love, so feel free to dig about. As for transparency, there is a big push to increase the trust in Google Cloud. We're a big company, and it's hard to get that personal connection to build the trust. I think our blog is trying to get this info out, here is a good recent one: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/how-we-secure-our-infrastructure.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/how-we-secure-o... My opinion is that Google is a very honest company. These whitepapers are our attempt to accurately describe what steps we are taking, in good faith, to ensure Google Cloud is the best, and most secure place, to do your computing on. As a personal anecdote, I once worked for Google (and quit, and came back) about 8 years ago. The difference in how secretive we are is night and day. I can say the word 'borg' in public, and even tell you what it is. And this is accelerating under Cloud, because we know that big enterprises aren't going to use us without a lot of details and assurances.

X86BSD 10y ago
Based on Googles track record with Android, and the atrocious deployment of TV on Google fiber, as well as a host of other examples of Googles beliefs and competencies, Google has a better chance of putting a person on Mars than me trusting them with anything. Time will tell what happens to Google.