Thursday, July 17, 2014

Google's Hackers Against Cyberattacks _ Pedro Guizardi

According to Jose Pagliery who wrote the article "Here's Google's plan to rid the world of cyberattacks" Google created the newest superheros group. This group called Google Project Zero will not fight on the streets or save you of being stolen. The Google Project Zero is responsible for eliminating cyberattack and defending computers of problems caused by hackers. This team is cursorily formed by hackers, hackers with good designation. The team’s mane came from a computer bug that they are fighting against the “Zero Day”. The Google’s team is not only looking for flaws in Google’s products, they look for any flaw on any software. When a flaw is identified, the group will directly communicate the company responsible for the product and so they can get it patched. If the company does not solve the problem, the blog will be used to divulge the flaws that this product has. Moreover, if nothing were doing soon, they will create a solution and make it public. Some companies that have already had some products in the public divulgation area were Apple and Microsoft. What motivate Google to create it was the company vision of a better world for everyone. Nonetheless, according to an ex-Google who talked with CNNMoney, they get all the effort back. The author also says that it is not just a good act for the world, but a business strategy. This project is not the first act on defense of ordinary computer users, groups like Electronic Frontier Foundation have been working on this voluntarily. 
In the point of view of an electronic addict who is me, the Google's expert group is something completely necessary. We all are unprotected when we are using the internet or some program in our computers or smartphones. The internet evolution came with a plenty of benefits and opportunities; however, it avoided malicious people to constrain ordinary people to make use of its benefits. Although some groups have tried to make the online world safer, it is not easy to make this without many and time. Google has a important position when the subject is technology or even the virtual world itself. They have many, knowledge, and a huge business interest in it at all. To sum up, this kind of attitude will make the internet a safer places to study, work or interact.   

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