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Re:Introducing Chronicle, a new Alphabet business dedicated ... by google_rocks on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:44PM (#16226615)
I hope I got it wrong, really. But Google has big (and small) corporate clients using the full GSuite..and a sister company selling "consulting" to the same companies? "It seems like you have some security issues, it's great that I have this friend who can fix them for you before you get hacked" Isn't that some sort of conflict of interest for any other industry? Wouldn't selling protection from unknown threats IRL classify as something neither ethical nor legal?...
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Re:Introducing Chronicle, a new Alphabet business dedicated ... by klodolph on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:10PM (#16226827)
> Wouldn't selling protection from unknown threats IRL classify as something neither ethical nor legal?...

Hiring private security or bodyguards is not considered unethical or illegal. Installing alarm systems is not unethical. Am I misunderstanding this?

Google already sells consulting to cloud customers, this seems perfectly natural and I'm not sure how you avoid it.

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Re:Introducing Chronicle, a new Alphabet business dedicated ... by ucaetano on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:12PM (#16226842)
> "It seems like you have some security issues, it's great that I have this friend who can fix them for you before you get hacked" Isn't that some sort of conflict of interest for any other industry?

Quite the opposite, that's how most consulting & professional service companies do business.

Cloud services & security consulting are complimentary.

Conflict of interest would be if Google was doing the hacking and the securing.

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Re:Introducing Chronicle, a new Alphabet business dedicated ... by jessaustin on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:09PM (#16226823)
Google loves protection rackets. "It's too bad your competitor down the road is buying your trademarked business name in AdWords, so now all your idiot customers are driving to his business because their phone told them to. All you really have to do to fix this is bid more for your name than he's bidding, every day from now on."
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