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This is pretty serious and the fact it's turned into a story is one of the more damaging things you could expect to see about Google w.r.t. privacy. SREs are i
by robk 16y ago
This is pretty serious and the fact it's turned into a story is one of the more damaging things you could expect to see about Google w.r.t. privacy. SREs are indeed very privileged and in many cases have carte blanche on their associated products. It's saddening one of them used his rights for nefarious purposes and broke some of the trust around Google's handling of personal data. I hope this leads to better auditing at least internally - seems like something that better transparency of access would have brought to light earlier.
- Kadrith 16y agoWhile it is no guarantee of any change I like that they are not attempting to sweep this under the rug. There are a lot of companies where people have access to a lot of sensitive data. All you can do is screen the employees, limit their access where possible and audit their use of the security. But then someone needs to audit the auditors. Just before I started here we used to have an employee who would look in the Oracle database used by Lawson to check payroll data. Nobody knew for a long time since he was the UNIX admin and DBA.
- jacquesm 16y agoI don't know where 'here' is but you might want to edit that comment.