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What if the government kidnapped a Google engineer (or several) and hit them with a wrench until they retrieved the data? That's a known, low-tech threat too.
by raldi 13y ago
What if the government kidnapped a Google engineer (or several) and hit them with a wrench until they retrieved the data? That's a known, low-tech threat too.
- lsh123 13y agoAbsolutely. That's why you have to have logs and regular audits to make sure that employees are not doing things that they are not supposed to do. BTW, one should consider not only kidnapping but just a "rogue" employee. For example, in the Snowden's case the NSA itself put too much trust into system administrators and did not perform audits that should have detected downloads of secure files.
- raldi 13y agoIn my scenario, the log maintainers and the auditors were among the people being hit with wrenches.