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by jefftk 1783 days ago
I was working at Google when it came out, and that they were tapping our private inter-dc links was a huge update. Before I think it was something like "I guess the NSA could do that a bit, but it would be a prohibitively costly to do much" and then suddenly it was "we have to encrypt all of this as quickly as we can". There was a huge internal reprioritization.

(Speaking only for myself; I didn't work on any of this directly)

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"Seriously, fuck these guys"
Easy to say f regulations, and oddly and most surprisingly nobody ever says good regulations when the building doesn’t come down.