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I find it interesting how many of those are attributed to project zero members
by kiddico 9y ago
I find it interesting how many of those are attributed to project zero members
- Gys 9y agoGood to know that at least Google is very concerned with MacOS security ;-)
- ninkendo 9y agoA sizable percentage of their employees use macs, so it's not surprising.
- digi_owl 9y agoAnd the impression i have is that the pixel products are in part an attempt at getting them to dogfood Google's own stuff.
- mtgx 9y agoI think part of the reason why Google even decided to make its own phones is because of security. If you read about their BeyondCorp enterprise security architecture, it emphasizes smartphone security quite a bit and how devices without timely updates, for instance, will be banned from the network (Google's own internal network that is). Given how bad most Android OEMs are at keeping their devices up to date, Google didn't have much of a choice, other than relying on iPhones, too, for its internal security. https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp/ https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp/
- tpush 9y agoWhy wouldn't they use their Nexuses? They even push the updates out themselves.
- Xorlev 9y agoNot everyone has a Nexus or Pixel. It's BYOD except for Corp phones.
- tpush 9y agoI was responding to this: "Given how bad most Android OEMs are at keeping their devices up to date, Google didn't have much of a choice, other than relying on iPhones, too, for its internal security." My question was why Google would be relying on iPhones when they could just use Nexuses(then) or Pixels(now), since they are pushing their own updates (especially security).
- Cyberdog 9y ago> I think part of the reason why Google even decided to make its own phones is because of security. Huh. I think the main reason some people (myself included) go out of their way to avoid Google products as much as possible is because of security.
- 8ytecoder 9y agoDo you mean privacy? I don't have issues with Google's handling of security.
- jageen 9y agoYou must read this https://www.hackread.com/google-collects-android-location-data-even-if-location-services-is-off/ https://www.hackread.com/google-collects-android-location-da...
- syrrim 9y agoThat's privacy (ie google collects your data), not security (some random hacker collects your data).
- yoz-y 9y agoThere is a link albeit not a first order one. If your privacy gets invaded enough, then random third parties will get your data (legally, from google) and then some random hacker will collect it.
- __jal 9y agoGoogle's security != your security. I do trust Google to "get security right"[1]. I just don't trust them to secure things I don't want to share with them. Which happens to be a huge percentage of data on and generated by my phone. [1] In the colloquial sense that people tend to use that phrase.
- shouldgowork 9y agoHappens at FB (more or less). Employees get ad credits, because it's an incredibly important part of the platform.
- euyyn 9y agoI can't think of any Google product that isn't dogfooded by Googlers, to be frank.
- tzakrajs 9y agoAdsense? I don't remember seeing internal advertisements powered by Adsense. :P
- discreditable 9y agoThis made me imagine Googlers annoucing donuts in meeting room x to others via adsense.
- radley 9y agoWhen I attended Google IO a couple of years back, I was surprised how many Android team members were using iPhones.
- tajen 9y agoWell if they want security, Android has only been half serious since 6 (entire systematic disk encryption, half-serious permissions...).
- euyyn 9y agoI've had a corporate Android phone since Ice-Cream Sandwich. I assume people that started before me used earlier versions too.
- finchisko 9y agoMaybe they want to have their enemy close. :D
- ratsimihah 9y ago<insert tsun zu quote here>
- kiddico 9y agowell somebody's got to do it
- arubberduck 9y agoGoogle has long been Apple's security division. Often I wonder if Apple has any security people at all. The last Safari update had 11 CVEs from Google. Most of Apple's updates credit one or more issues to Google, and often Apple credits OSS-Fuzz, which is also a Google project.
- sigmar 9y ago>Often I wonder if Apple has any security people at all. It just feels like they don't since they don't let their security people have social media presences. For example, their recent hire Jonathan Zdziarski
- saagarjha 9y agoIt looks like you were cut off there…
- NamTaf 9y agoNo, reread it as "For example, [consider] their recent hire Jonathan Zdziarski[, whom you'll see is a leading iOS security researcher from a cursory Google search]" The GP just omitted a bunch of implied statement, which isn't immediately obvious especially if you don't natively speak English.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoHe forgot a period at the end, so it does look like he got cut off potentially.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoSecurity Update 2017-001 was released November 29, 2017: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208315 https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208315 Does it mean it's the first security update of the year? :(
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