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Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the crypto-swat dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow4408

Lea Kissner is back at her alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, armed with a crisp gray blazer, a slide deck, and a laptop with a 'My Other Car Is A Pynchon Novel' sticker on it. Since graduating in 2002, she's earned a PhD at Carnegie Mellon in cryptography and worked her way up at Google, where she manages user privacy and tries to keep things from breaking. She's here to tell a hall of computer science students how she did it—and also how to create privacy-protective systems at a scale that you won't find outside a handful of massive tech companies.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-woman-who-leads-nightwatch-google-s-internal-1825227132

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  • (Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:33AM (5 children)

    by stormwyrm (717) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:33AM (#668503) Journal
    Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I am the keeper of secrets in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the privacy of the users. I pledge my life and honour to the NightWatch, for this night and all the nights to come.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @11:50AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @11:50AM (#668525)

    Except in Game of Thrones it's "Night's Watch" and not NightWatch.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:53PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:53PM (#668683)

      Oh thanks Captain Anal!

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:29PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:29PM (#668586) Homepage Journal

    Nice. Makes me think of Robert Frost, and "miles to go before I sleep". Of course, I don't need much of an excuse to think of Robert, LOL. If Rudyard Kipling or Robert Frost didn't write something about it, then it's probably irrelevant. :^)

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:51PM

    by Thexalon (636) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:51PM (#668704)

    There's another fictional NightWatch, though, which said something very different [youtube.com]:

    As the name implies, you must also be watchful. Peace can be made or broken with a gun, a word, an idea, even a thought. Now, those who work against peace sow the seeds of discontent. They plant false stories, they undermine the public good. It's not because they are necessarily evil. It's because they don't know any better. They're rejected, they're unhappy, and they lash out in the only way they can. So, If we could be made aware of these problems as they occur, then we can find these people, we can talk to these people, we can embrace them again in the arms of society, while, at the same time, protecting society from misinformation and harmful ideas. We're less interested in actions than we are in attitudes. We must help protect society against its own worst instincts. And by taking these bold steps, we will help to ensure a better future for everyone. I'm proud to be a part of it, and I hope you'll all join me in becoming part of the Night Watch.

    That guy was part of a totalitarian system being set up to equate political loyalty to the president to being loyal to the government that president is in charge of.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.