No Keystroke Left Behind

[Robin Landseadel]

A British engineer who works on anti-hacking systems at Google has  
furiously accused the UK and US spying agencies of "industrial scale  
subversion of the judicial process" by tapping the company's internal  
networks.

Mike Hearn, who says he worked for two years on the networks that  
replicate Google data between its different computing centres, says  
that "GCHQ [the British surveillance centre] turns out to be even  
worse than the NSA [the US National Security Agency]". He added that  
he joined an American colleague, Brandon Downey, "in issuing a giant  
fuck you to the people [at the NSA and GCHQ] who made these slides".

His complaint follows the revelation by the Washington Post of slides  
leaked by Edward Snowden which show that GCHQ tapped the private  
networks between Google's centres in order to monitor traffic.

Hearn, a senior engineer at Google since 2010, complains that "nobody  
at GCHQ or the NSA will ever stand before a judge and answer for this  
industrial-scale subversion of the judicial process".

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/06/google-nsa-gchq-spying-judicial-process
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