“Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security”

Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security

An Ex-Amazonian Googler’s justifiable hostility towards Security

A few days ago Steve Yegge posted a rant to his Google+ account with the intention that it would stay Google-internal. Oops.

You can read the rant – now replicated all over the net, for instance YCombinator or mirrored back at Google – with Steve’s belated blessing. It’s a good rant and my enterprise experience largely leads me to agree with his perspective. The press has primarily covered it for its criticism of Google+.

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