Google and the NSA
February 11th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Hopefully, no one visits me to ask questions after writing about the news that Google has reached out to the NSA for help with security. But, as the Washington Post reported last week, Google went to the NSA after the cyber-attacks on its network in China. Google is not the first, nor the only commercial entity to lean on the NSA for security help. Google is, however, possessed of the ability (more of the desire) to connect to every man, woman and child on earth.
If anyone is listening, please, I think it is generally a good idea for Google and the NSA to conference on cybersecurity issues. I am a concerned citizen. Also, I am not a communist. I am, however, a Republican (but you probably already know that).
I do want to make the point to everyone else, however, vis-a-vis the whole privacy thing, that in a side-by-side comparison with Google and the NSA huddled together around whiteboards and data terminals, the prospect of, say, Kraft Foods possessing my anonymous surfing behavior online in order to tempt me with macaroni and cheese advertising does not appear especially threatening. It will not be the privacy issue I go to bed worrying about tonight.
If you know what I mean.
God bless America.
