Re:Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team
by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:04PM
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I am floored when I tell some vendor they can't do something because it isn't secure, and they look at me like nobody's ever told them that before. My general impression is "I can't seriously be the first person who's ever said this, can I?"
The thing people need to remember is that the CIA Director's AOL email account got hacked. In 2015. We are so far as a society from where we should be.
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Re:Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team
by Bucephalus355 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:09PM
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Wait is this about me? Dude my opening line is about how I disparage Google almost all of the time.
Re:Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team
by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:01PM
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They're talking about me. Bitmapbuddy and joshuamorton kinda seem to follow me around at this point. I've gotten used to it.
Also, FWIW, I said really nice things about the ADMX templates Google offers for managing Chrome installs. Literally yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16317523
Re:Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team
by joshuamorton on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:17PM
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No, he's likely referring to ocdtrekkie.
My positive perception mainly comes from this super paranoid dude, Michael Bazzell: https://inteltechniques.com/experience.html. He both hates Google for their data collection and also respects it for their security practices.
Ugh I also hate to hear they’re doing the “we’re secure but who knows about our 3rd parties” practice. State IT does this as well. As long as you sign some contract with them that promises them you do NSA-style security, they’ll buy anything from you. Of course what 5-man IT shop wouldn’t sign a $20,000,000 IT contract when worst case, they get a bad audit and have to spend 50k really quickly to get up to SOC II?
You can literally find a list of State IT contractors for most govs, and just go through them finding all the fly-by-night shops. That being said, the big vendors aren’t that much better either...
tl;dr: everyone sucks and be afraid and use mfa