I yield to no HN commenter in sympathy for the Google security team, as my comment history will surely indicate, but it's possible to take that sympathy too far. Yes, Google's security team has done important things for the privacy of all Internet users. However, for its own users, it has also created the largest subpoenable body of private information in the history of the world.
Google's security team has its hands full just shipping a browser that doesn't unlock the computers of all its users for anyone who can write a heap overflow exploit (which is why you should probably prefer Chrome over other browsers). They are not in fact moving the needle on the problem of protecting their own data from hostile governments.
Google's security team has its hands full just shipping a browser that doesn't unlock the computers of all its users for anyone who can write a heap overflow exploit (which is why you should probably prefer Chrome over other browsers). They are not in fact moving the needle on the problem of protecting their own data from hostile governments.