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Seems like the ball is with Google at the moment, the exposed data is on their GCP servers. So, they can figure out next steps.
by kerng 7y ago
Seems like the ball is with Google at the moment, the exposed data is on their GCP servers. So, they can figure out next steps.
- Scoundreller 7y agoImagine the equivalent in another industry: “Hello, Bank of America? There’s an ATM machine of yours that’s spitting out cocaine. Yes, I understand that it’s probably not your cocaine and that’s not your business, but don’t you think you should maybe shut it down?”
- lucb1e 7y agoBut would you call VendingMachinesCo because there is a vending machine outside the local supermarket, operated by said supermarket, that spits out cocaine? Pretty sure that whatever you put in there is the machine owner's responsibility, not the manufacturer. GCP does not put content in their VPSes themselves the way that a bank operates an ATM. I think it's more like the responsibility of an ISP to poke their noses in what they transfer, since it might be illegal content (similar to whether Google should poke their noses into people's VPSes). I'm not sure if we should want to require them to do that.
- quotemstr 7y agoGet a court order. No infrastructure company on its own should be making value judgements about what it hosts.