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What also may have motivated Google & Co was that ISPs and, further down, hot spots like hotels etc. started to insert/replace ads on unencrypted connections...
by okket 9y ago
What also may have motivated Google & Co was that ISPs and, further down, hot spots like hotels etc. started to insert/replace ads on unencrypted connections...
- skybrian 9y agoSecurity professionals tend to be motivated to work on improving security because they think it's important to protect users from the bad guys. And it's not like people have a sudden change of heart when joining Google.
- mirko22 9y agoBut it is also not like you get to do what you want in big corporations. Rather you do what you have been told, and usually you might not even know the real reason. Also security professional is a person that know a lot about security, his intentions are not necessarily "good" for him to be considered a security professional in my opinion. Very good black hat hacker are also professionals.
- skybrian 9y agoThat's rather more top-down than I've seen. There are large corporate initiatives, but many projects happen because someone thought it was a good idea and sold it to management.
- wang_li 9y agoFor plenty of people, Google is a bad guy.
- AceJohnny2 9y agoBut there needs to be investment to pay said security professionals to develop the tools, publish them, polish them to be user-friendly (otherwise no-one uses them, see GPG), to pay for the datacenter hosting... It doesn't happen in a vacuum.