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This is why end-to-end encryption is so important. Only a matter of time before some employee dumps a database of highly sensitive chats, emails, etc on the int
by ronnier 5y ago
This is why end-to-end encryption is so important. Only a matter of time before some employee dumps a database of highly sensitive chats, emails, etc on the internet. With e2ee that just wouldn’t matter as much.
- tester34 5y agowhy would anyone want to basically not only throw himself into the jail, but also lose $300k career? I guess juniors do not have access to prod dbs
- gowld 5y agoTo make a new career in the QAnon industry. https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Expos%C3%A9-Censorship/dp/1510767363 https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Expos%C3%...
- trasz 5y agoHow would you make career in Qanon by leaking true information?
- maccard 5y agoNot all of these people would have been engineers, some may have been support people or account managers.
- zionic 5y agoWhy would someone shoot up a movie theater? Humans do not always act in their rational self interest.
- jcims 5y agoI've worked in infosec at a FAANG and large corporate environment, and the amount of eye watering stupidity I've seen from brand new employees is difficult to reconcile with the prevailing theories about the level of intelligence they hire. It's like they spawned into a whole new universe and don't have any understanding of what is expected of them.
- raxxorrax 5y agoI guess people would spy on those they know and the answer is curiosity. Most people would think they won't get caught and there is probably a large number of unreported cases.
- gowld 5y agoA matter of negative time. https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Expos%C3%A9-Censorship/dp/1510767363 https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Expos%C3%...
- jasonvorhe 5y agoUh, yeah, one of those project veritas stunts: > Using Google's own internal search engine, Zach discovered their six-part plan for complete information dominance and released 950 pages of these documents to the world in June 2019 with an appearance with James O'Keefe on Project Veritas, which quickly became one of their most popular stories. Of course he's into QAnon and thinks that Covid-19 was planned: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qqyn/an-ex-google-employee-turned-whistleblower-and-qanon-fan-made-plandemic-go-viral https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qqyn/an-ex-google-employee... What a great source.
- jnwatson 5y agoEnd-to-end encryption doesn't really matter when the insider has access to the keys. Encryption doesn't really change the problem. It moves the problem from access control over the data to access control over the keys.
- dtech 5y agoIf the insider can have access to the keys it's not end-to-end encryption.
- bhawks 5y agoI think we have to be honest that the state of the art for end to end encryption doesn't work well yet for many types of usescases beyond 2 way communications. How could you make an e2ee calendaring service? E2ee google sites like page with groups based access control? Realtime group collaborative editors? Any one of these features is distinctive and novel enough that if you had something that worked even in a moderate scale you could turn it into a company.