Google and NSA Teaming Up

i_frame writes "The Washington Post reports that '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. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack.'"

Defend its users?

[sakdoctor]

I can defend myself perfectly well, by using the correct tool for the job:

Self hosted mail server: Business, personal, anarchism.
Gmail: Fwding Lolcats.

Re:Conversation between Google and NSA

[vxice]

"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. " RTFA, some people do take privacy seriously.

So what

[koan]

ATT routes all (yes all) their traffic thru the NSA
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/11/ex-att-employee-nsa-snooping-internet-traffic-too.ars [arstechnica.com]

This move from Google is more political the security oriented.

Re:Here's an oldie...

[blackest_k]

may i recommend detiny url expander a small add on for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13140 [mozilla.org]

which expands the above link to http://web.archive.org/web/20001202200100/http://---www.goatse.cx/ [archive.org] (If you really want to click it you will have to go to the parent post)

Re:Here's an oldie...

[biryokumaru]

I recommend ChromeMUSE [google.com] for us Chrome folk.

Re:Here's an oldie...

[Assembler]

You can also turn on the tinyurl preview feature. http://tinyurl.com/preview.php [tinyurl.com]

Re:Conversation between Google and NSA

[AliasMarlowe]

You could google on _NSAKEY or NSA_KEY or NSAKEY and find what some security researchers in Europe discovered and published. For instance http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html [heise.de]
A Microsoft officer offered to explain the presence of NSA_KEY, and indeed gave a partial clarification. Microsoft then declined to answer the follow-up questions which were asked, and refused to explain why they were not answering. http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm [cryptome.org]
Read into this whatever you like - innocent, tinfoil hat, or otherwise. Here's the wikipedia story about it; feel free to vandalize^W improve it with your comprehensive knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY [wikipedia.org]

Re:Here's an oldie...

[mister_playboy]

Why would you click on an a tinyurl link, especially from an AC?