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Re:Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Sh... by saalweachter on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:25PM (#15228648)
Honestly Google is one of the few companies I know of which really considers internal threats and has taken precautions to reduce the likelihood that internal bad actors will have access, to reduce the scope of access to any bad actors that slip through, and to ensure that illegitimate accesses will be noticed, reducing the time a bad actor will have access.
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Re:Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Sh... by lisper on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:39PM (#15228806)
I believe you. But one still has to wonder who watches the watchmen.
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Re:Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Sh... by saalweachter on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:51PM (#15228947)
Crazy libertarian SREs. :-P
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Re:Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Sh... by JadeNB on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:20PM (#15229224)
> Crazy libertarian SREs. :-P

A Google search didn't immediately clarify. What is 'SRE'? The most plausible de-abbreviation I could find was "site reliability engineer".

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Re:Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Sh... by saalweachter on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:46PM (#15229474)
Site-reliability engineers is the correct de-abbreviation.

While data at Google is tightly protected, everything else at Google is fairly transparent. In particular, you can see who is using what resources. SREs, among other things, monitor and manage this resource usage. Large, abnormal usages ("Why is someone copying all this data off-site?") will be noticed, and some of the people who will notice won't take "because the NSA told us to" as an acceptable answer.

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Re:Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Sh... by klodolph on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:49PM (#15229503)
See the SRE book: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
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Re:Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Sh... by joshuamorton on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:27PM (#15229288)
That'd be the right abbreviation.
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