Google servers in Douglas County, Ga. The company is encrypting more data as it moves between servers. Credit Connie Zhou/Google
Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies -- David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google’s main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become the newest arms race in modern technology: They are making it far more difficult — and far more expensive — for the National Security Agency and the intelligence arms of other governments around the world to pierce their systems.
As fast as it can, Google is sealing up cracks in its systems that Edward J. Snowden revealed the N.S.A. had brilliantly exploited. It is encrypting more data as it moves among its servers and helping customers encode their own emails. Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo are taking similar steps.
After years of cooperating with the government, the immediate goal now is to thwart Washington — as well as Beijing and Moscow. The strategy is also intended to preserve business overseas in places like Brazil and Germany that have threatened to entrust data only to local providers.
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My Comment: I am sure that Edward Snowden's revelations have hit the bottom line for some of these tech-giants .... but the idea that they will refuse (or make difficult) a demand from the U.S. government to tap into their computer networks .... on this issue I have my doubts. If anything .... this enhanced security and encryption is to make it more difficult for foreign spy agencies (Russia, China, etc.) to pierce their systems .... while saying publicly that the are pushing back against the U.S. intelligence community.
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I agree.
Their in cahoots with the spy agencies and I don't see this co-operation failing any time soon.
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