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> 3. Google's infrastructure changes. You can't just install a gateway to the NSA and expect it to continue working for a long time. It's not as if user-data wa
by jsolson 13y ago
> 3. Google's infrastructure changes. You can't just install a gateway to the NSA and expect it to continue working for a long time. It's not as if user-data was stored in simple text-files.
I think this was the biggest bullshit signal for me (also a Googler, although a recent addition). The high rate of change of Google's infrastructure is astounding when you consider the scale it operates at. The notion of trying to maintain a functional API in secret of the scope they're talking about is laughable without a pretty sizable team.
Impossible? No, probably not, but really ridiculously unlikely.
- jfoster 13y agoGoogle's own apps keep up with the infrastructure changes. Why would an NSA backdoor be any different to just another Google app?
- jsolson 13y agoThat was sort of my point: those apps require sizable teams and a huge amount of cooperation from dependencies. If you're operating in secret, cooperation is going to be a hard commodity to come by. I also feel like a sizable team of the sort of people who work at Google would inevitably have leaked something about this before now.