{"id":120991,"date":"2021-03-29T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/googles-unusual-move-to-shut-down-an-active-counterterrorism-operation-being-conducted-by-a-western-democracy"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:47:09","slug":"googles-unusual-move-to-shut-down-an-active-counterterrorism-operation-being-conducted-by-a-western-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/googles-unusual-move-to-shut-down-an-active-counterterrorism-operation-being-conducted-by-a-western-democracy","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s unusual move to shut down an active counterterrorism operation being conducted by a Western democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-unusual-move-to-shut-down-an-active-counterterrorism-operation-being-conducted-by-a-western-democracy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google stops western government hacking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of focusing on who was behind and targeted by a specific operation, Google decided to take broader action for everyone. The justification was that even if a Western government was the one exploiting those vulnerabilities today, it will eventually be used by others, and so the right choice is always to fix the flaw today.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A decision to shut down exploits being used by \u201cfriendly\u201d hackers has caused controversy inside the company\u2019s security teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google stops western government hacking. \u201cInstead of focusing on who was behind and targeted by a specific operation, Google decided to take broader action for everyone. The justification was that even if a Western government was the one exploiting those vulnerabilities today, it will eventually be used by others, and so the right choice is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}