Ars TechnicaTo defeat hackers, Google wants employees to work without Internet access
You can't get hacked if you aren't on the Internet.
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@arstechnica Ummm... so does that include GoogleFi? 😂
Dr.Implausible@arstechnica Why do I reflexively have to check the date on so many news stories in this dark timeline?
Kevin Karhan 
@arstechnica So does #Google have it's own private #Network connecting to employees' homes or do they just want to flex escalating commitment to their overpriced commercial office space leases?
SpicewallaStuxnet would like a word.
HTPC NZ@arstechnica didn't think anyone could beat companies that develop tech for remote work asking their own employees to come back to work in the office. Oh how wrong I was when an internet giant says this...
Michael Porter@arstechnica Yeah, I get it - They’re not really an internet company anyway. 🤷🏻♂️
Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)Each time they have limited our internet access at work, they have eventually had to open it again. We can barely work otherwise.
Corner cases aside, developers need Internet. And I find very unlikely Google developers are an exception.
Who knows. Maybe it is only for management.
Tommy Kavanagh@arstechnica we still need to know the #Microsoft patient zero/attack vector (the MS reference inside the Google story "somehow stole a cryptographic key")
The Great Llama 
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"We've been doing some cost/benefit analysis and we've decided this whole internet thing was a mistake." - Google probably
"We've been doing some cost/benefit analysis and we've decided this whole internet thing was a mistake." - Google probably
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Julien 
@arstechnica I know someone on this project at Google. The feedback was indeed "enthusiastic" but I think it was also messaged poorly internally. From what I understand (second hand) these are virtual environments that you can shell into and work within on any device. Yes they don't have internet or root by default (can be granted), but they're basically just VMs. It's not like they are giving out work laptops to employees with internet access disabled
Josh (he/his)@arstechnica "with the exception of internal web-based tools and Google-owned websites like Google Drive and Gmail"
LOL
Neo-Athenian Empire@arstechnica Wonder what would happen to productivity without stack exchange.
Not Sure@arstechnica now if only Google would make more of their products accessible offline...
Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦@arstechnica I fully agree. No internet access, and no USB-sticks and there's little change of getting hacked.
seanA young Googler named Adama will grow up to save us all.
It's an integrated computer network and I will not have it aboard this ship
Chloe Fletcher
Corb_The_Lesser@arstechnica Does everyone need continuous internet access on the job? What if access was instantly, automagically, enabled when a user did something requiring it, and immediately disabled when that action completed?