“Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter,” Nakashima reports. “The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack.”
“Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership. But sources with knowledge of the arrangement, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google’s policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans’ online communications,” Nakashima reports. “The sources said the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users’ searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data.”
Nakashima reports, “The partnership strikes at the core of one of the most sensitive issues for the government and private industry in the evolving world of cybersecurity: how to balance privacy and national security interests.”
Full article here.
I blame Bush.
I suppose we all should BING now?
There is no privacy when it comes to National Security, period. After 9/11, everything became subject to National Security and just about any form of violence can be classified as terrorism.
“I suppose we all should BING now?”
There is something odd sounding about that phrase….
I know what it is!
It could be the replacement for the phrase, “Turning Japanese!”.
This is not a bad thing.
Google knows these cyber attacks will continue and they are defenseless against any insider who choses to take the money in exchange for a way to bypass security.
Maybe it’s happened already and Google needs the NSA’s help in prosecuting insiders who have made a lucrative living off corporate espionage.
This move by Google opens a door for any corporate entity who might be considered a national security risk.
Espionage takes hacking to a whole new level and should be pursued with extreme prejudice.
They should ask Jobs instead of the asshole who runs Google.
NSA: “Hey Google, stop letting your employees use Internet Explorer.”
Google: “Hey, wow, thanks!”
…okay, I suppose there’s more to it than that, but still.
Delete all your personal info from Google Now! before the NSA makes it all part of the Public Record!!!
What could possibly go wrong?
Google, too big to fail?
Somebody needs to tell the NSA not to let Google into the War Room; Schmidt will steal every secret he can get a peek at.
So when the NSA really wants to spy on people they turn to Google!
What does the NSA have in common with Google?
The NSA has ALSO been severely hacked by Red China!
So what is the benefit of consulting with the NSA considering the fact that they have FAILed to keep US federal computers (running Windows) safe from the Red Hacker Alliance? For over 11 years!!!
Beats me. Well, at least the NSA and Google can share sob stories and compare notes.
http://Mac-Security.blogspot.com
Dosen’t give me a warm and fuzzy…the entire Intel Community’s moral is at an all time low thanks to the disastrous “Pay for Performance” fiasco…which the ODNI is pushing on everyone but themselves. National Security is NO place to try and save a buck, while screwing the people you are counting on to keep us safe!
How right you are, Bush is to blame.
Bush also to blame for unemployment from 10 to 9.7.!!!!
What’s the expression? “If you lie down with dogs, don’t be surprised if you get up with fleas”
The NSA is an unconvicted criminal organization, as demonstrated by the telecom data sharing conspiracy they entered into with several major telecoms (QWest excluded; they deserve your support for declining to break the law).
“Do No Evil” might need to be modified to “Hang out with Evil People and cooperate with them secretly, but we ourselves do no evil, no sir!”
When was the last time a pair of victims (supposedly) collaborated like this? Neither Google nor the NSA is a law enforcement organization and they are attempting to investigate crimes.
Do they have licenses as private investigators? Isn’t this what the FBI is for?
After taking the government to court to stop it asking for help in tracking drugs money, they now come bleating for help from the government to protect them from the Government which insisted on having controls to prevent and spy on its own citizens in order to curb descent and any un-prescribed view, controls that have been used to bite the very hand that gave it those controls!
They should be left to pay for net security experts to sort this mess out for them or else utilise the over paid experts on their payroll, exploiting tax payers through the NSA is not fair trade, it is being bailed out by the tax payer! I think tax payers have had enough of this, don’t you?
Reading the MDN commentaries is making me feel like Diogenes with > sed ‘s/honest/intelligent/g’.
This is no joke. People we need to wake up. Big brother is taking you rights away right under your nose. The NSA stands for “no such agency”. The globalists are slowly taking away our US sovereignty while we watch the trash on TV and play video games. A good source of information is http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/ or http://prisonplanet.tv . This is no laughing matter.
Google is quiet about what they consider is a “quality” website… so I thought it would be helpful to see if anyone here is a Google “evaluator” and might be able to share what Google wants to see on a web page. Facebook applications