Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Author of Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
About the Author
Jean-Philippe Aumasson is Principal Research Engineer at Kudelski Security, an international cybersecurity company based in Switzerland. He has authored more than 40 research articles in the field of cryptography and cryptanalysis and designed the widely used hash functions BLAKE2 and SipHash. He show more speaks regularly at information security conferences and has presented at Black Hat, DEF CON, Troopers, and Infiltrate. show less
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Google does not really need to crack encryption!
If you are using a Google search engine or a Chrome Browser, the information may not be tagged to you individually, but the global use is factored in for you within some narrow range of locales and your averaged usage of sites and buying patterns are known sufficient to the purposes of Google. Why bother with encryption matters if they are only interested in ads revenue?
Google knows where you are if you use an Android Phone. Every time you see show more how many bars you have and whether your service is 3G, 4G or 5G, know that Google uses the data to tell where your phone may be from the part of the cellular chip working with the main CPU. [The bars and the signal type is a second chip that tells your carrier (TMN, Vodafone, NOS, ATT, Sprint, T Mobile, Verizon, Orange or other) where you are but is not actually Google's tracking.]
Add to this the 'Hey Google' smart speaker which can listen into your talking perhaps, which knows your queries made and purchases or listening pattern, your Next Thermostat and your home security based on Ring. Google is contributing to a good part of your life, perhaps even in your motor vehicle.
When Google puts some number on us, perhaps it can become 'A Great Benefactor' to us, but that is pushing things a bit too far, I suspect.
Nonetheless, Google has intruded itself so far into our lives as to make violation of encryption nearly meaningless. The amount of data collected on you by Google can likely fill a few MB daily and some GB every few weeks even without the other violations.
Cryptocurrencies are worried about quantum computing, unravelling the block calculations and effectively doing a 50%+ node attack which deletes transactions and/or creates a new fork of the blockchain. This will be probably the litmus test / proof of quantum computing. show less
If you are using a Google search engine or a Chrome Browser, the information may not be tagged to you individually, but the global use is factored in for you within some narrow range of locales and your averaged usage of sites and buying patterns are known sufficient to the purposes of Google. Why bother with encryption matters if they are only interested in ads revenue?
Google knows where you are if you use an Android Phone. Every time you see show more how many bars you have and whether your service is 3G, 4G or 5G, know that Google uses the data to tell where your phone may be from the part of the cellular chip working with the main CPU. [The bars and the signal type is a second chip that tells your carrier (TMN, Vodafone, NOS, ATT, Sprint, T Mobile, Verizon, Orange or other) where you are but is not actually Google's tracking.]
Add to this the 'Hey Google' smart speaker which can listen into your talking perhaps, which knows your queries made and purchases or listening pattern, your Next Thermostat and your home security based on Ring. Google is contributing to a good part of your life, perhaps even in your motor vehicle.
When Google puts some number on us, perhaps it can become 'A Great Benefactor' to us, but that is pushing things a bit too far, I suspect.
Nonetheless, Google has intruded itself so far into our lives as to make violation of encryption nearly meaningless. The amount of data collected on you by Google can likely fill a few MB daily and some GB every few weeks even without the other violations.
Cryptocurrencies are worried about quantum computing, unravelling the block calculations and effectively doing a 50%+ node attack which deletes transactions and/or creates a new fork of the blockchain. This will be probably the litmus test / proof of quantum computing. show less
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