Google engineer accuses NSA and GCHQ of subverting 'judicial process'

[G_j]

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

Anti-hacking expert claims British spy agency is 'even worse' than NSA for tapping private networks between Google's centres
Wednesday 6 November 2013 09.29 EST

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".

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[librechik]

1. now we are going somewhere!

[riderinthestorm]

2. Pfft. DU authoritarians have decided there's nothing to see here Mike Hearn!

Your alarm is all wrong doncha know!