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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by jopsen on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:40AM (#17373186)
If all they need is generic services with various certification and isolation, I see no reason not to sell that.

And the "air gap" mentioned in this article doesn't seem controversial. Doing AI for drones, however, could easily become controversial.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by sidr on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:57AM (#17373976)
The air gap itself is so that the military can use Google cloud to run computations that require a higher level of clearance. Those high clearance level computations are more likely to be directly related to combat and AI for drones. Air gap itself is no biggie, but the only reason they're building it is to enable the use of Google cloud for drone AI.
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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by AndrewKemendo on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:05AM (#17374493)
Those high clearance level computations are more likely to be directly related to combat and AI for drones.

No. The closer you are to a bullet the further you are from JWICS.

Aside from the most compartmentalized of special operations, which typically will fall within the purview of an IC member, the majority of the military works either in the open or at the "Secret" level.

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