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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by nevir on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:18PM (#12550815)
Google does not work like every other data center in the world. All internal services communicate over SSL (or similarly encrypted links)
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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by makomk on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:34PM (#12550948)
Though only because they discovered their internal unencrypted links were being systematically compromised on a truly massive scale for years.
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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by puzzle on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:38PM (#12551506)
False. There was already internal encrypted traffic and the revelations only sped up the migration for the rest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-en...

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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by themihai on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:10AM (#12555971)
I think the load-balancers do not communicate over SSL. At least not the ones in front of Appengine applications. Perhaps only inter-services communication is encrypted(i.e. app service with database service).
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