Bruce Schneier from CNN wrote an article on how Google was compromised by Chinese hackers, and he mentioned that for being complying to the law Google had built a backdoor to aid the US government in gaining access to users’ accounts easier — the Chinese hackers used this backdoor to hack Google’s users accounts. In a sense, Google’s system is very similar to Windows, because it emphasizes on convenience over security. So to speak, in a way Google needs to apply Linux’s vision as to create a system with security at heart which means closing down all backdoors in Google’s system. More.
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Vinh Nguyen
