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Thanks for your reply, and that sucks to hear about Google. My positive perception mainly comes from this super paranoid dude, Michael Bazzell: https://intelte

Thanks for your reply, and that sucks to hear about Google. My positive perception mainly comes from this super paranoid dude, Michael Bazzell: https://inteltechniques.com/experience.html https://inteltechniques.com/experience.html. He both hates Google for their data collection and also respects it for their security practices. Ugh I also hate to hear they’re doing the “we’re secure but who knows about our 3rd parties” practice. State IT does this as well. As long as you sign some contract with them that promises them you do NSA-style security, they’ll buy anything from you. Of course what 5-man IT shop wouldn’t sign a $20,000,000 IT contract when worst case, they get a bad audit and have to spend 50k really quickly to get up to SOC II? You can literally find a list of State IT contractors for most govs, and just go through them finding all the fly-by-night shops. That being said, the big vendors aren’t that much better either... tl;dr: everyone sucks and be afraid and use mfa

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
I am floored when I tell some vendor they can't do something because it isn't secure, and they look at me like nobody's ever told them that before. My general impression is "I can't seriously be the first person who's ever said this, can I?" The thing people need to remember is that the CIA Director's AOL email account got hacked. In 2015. We are so far as a society from where we should be.
bitmapbrother 9y ago
You should research his post history. His angle is to disparage Google every opportunity he gets.
- Bucephalus355 9y ago
  Wait is this about me? Dude my opening line is about how I disparage Google almost all of the time.
  - joshuamorton 9y ago
    No, he's likely referring to ocdtrekkie.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    They're talking about me. Bitmapbuddy and joshuamorton kinda seem to follow me around at this point. I've gotten used to it. Also, FWIW, I said really nice things about the ADMX templates Google offers for managing Chrome installs. Literally yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16317523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16317523

ocdtrekkie 9y ago

I am floored when I tell some vendor they can't do something because it isn't secure, and they look at me like nobody's ever told them that before. My general impression is "I can't seriously be the first person who's ever said this, can I?" The thing people need to remember is that the CIA Director's AOL email account got hacked. In 2015. We are so far as a society from where we should be.

bitmapbrother 9y ago

You should research his post history. His angle is to disparage Google every opportunity he gets.

Bucephalus355 9y ago
Wait is this about me? Dude my opening line is about how I disparage Google almost all of the time.
- joshuamorton 9y ago
  No, he's likely referring to ocdtrekkie.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  They're talking about me. Bitmapbuddy and joshuamorton kinda seem to follow me around at this point. I've gotten used to it. Also, FWIW, I said really nice things about the ADMX templates Google offers for managing Chrome installs. Literally yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16317523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16317523