And not only that, this doesn't make my top 10 list of things that Google engineers can/should push to meaningfully influence.
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Replying to @lizthegrey @yonatanzunger and
I'm much more concerned by issues like https://www.google.com/about/gender-balance-diversity-important-to-machine-learning/ … to mobilize around.
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Replying to @lizthegrey @yonatanzunger and
Remember most peoples' threat model is Mossad or not-Mossad c.f. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf … -- so it's not a moral decision, it's priorities.
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@yonatanzunger astutely pointed out, building a phone for the Mossad case to be resilient against nation-state actors is a different prob1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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and something that could be organized outside Google.
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Replying to @lizthegrey @yonatanzunger and
I don’t understand the defeatism here. Another big tech company managed it. You have great people. Why surrender?
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Replying to @tqbf @lizthegrey and
M's contention is that line employees could just do this on their own if they wanted to. Tell me how that'd go over w/Apple mgmt exactly
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Could Google as a whole do it, with mgmt support? Maybe. Google's strength is never "do the same thing as someone else but later", though
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I don’t really even understand what this means. Either they should do it or they shouldn’t.
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Replying to @tqbf @lizthegrey and
I'm saying "another tech company did it, so Google can/should" doesn't hold water. See also: Facebook v Google+.
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you’re talking about a consumer safety feature.
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Consumers by and large have the not-Mossad threat model, not the Mossad threat model.
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You mean except for the lawyers, journalists, and human rights workers.
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