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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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Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:14PM (6 children)
Not a very good name to choose. Very ominous name for any B5 fan.
The Psi Corps
Is Your Friend.
Trust The Corps!
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by Weasley on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:20PM (2 children)
The corp is mother; the corp is father.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:46PM (1 child)
And, the Legion is the fatherland? "Although it is part of the French military, it is the only unit of the military that does not swear allegiance to France, but to the Foreign Legion itself." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion [wikipedia.org]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @02:58PM
They do via contract. You can not be a French citizen though. This allows France to have low protests due to military conflicts. No citizens were hurt in the making of this intervention.
After your seven years you are given the option of a new identity as a French citizen and even a not so bad retirement option. Approximately 10% attrition. On par with Marine corps training.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:20PM
How can you not trust an organization set up by the Ministry of Peace? Aren't you loyal to President Clark? ;)
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)
First thing that I thought of...
Pretty ironic to use the name of an organization in Babylon 5 that was created to spy on everyone. And one wonders how many geeks there are at google that would recognize the significance.
But they had nothing to do with Psi Corps. As mentioned earlier they were part of the Ministry of Peace and civilian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwatch_(Babylon_5) [wikipedia.org]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:39PM
That is what makes it so creepy, the fact -everyone- at Google would know where the name came from because someone in every working group would be a B5 fan. Everyone would instantly understand the meaning of the codename and thus correctly infer the actual mission of the group without it ever needing to be written down and subject to a court order. An obscure sci-fi fandom reference would never be brought up at a Congressional hearing, never discussed on CNN because it would be 'a crazy conspiracy theory'; yet it is right out in the open and everyone knows what it is. Combined with "Don't be evil" as the old corporate motto. Oh yea, sure we can trust them with knowing more about ya than yer own mother does.