China's apparent threat to Google is alarming me. Now that I'm a freelance writer without an in-house IT staff I'm counting on Google.
All my work is being done on Google. Gmail is my lifeline. It's the email I use on my iPhone. I'm not using Word or Excel or Powerpoint. I'm using Google Documents and its other apps. Even when I'm on a 3G connection with my netbook rather than on my home wifi, they work plenty fast. And I like the idea of Google handling backup for me and fighting viruses.
But its accusations against China are worrisome. While Google hasn't said so, it seems to me that if China can successfully hack specific e-mail accounts, it could possibly disrupt or even block other service. I can't operate if Google isn't functioning. I'd like Google to be more forthcoming about how secure it is against well-funded government hackers.
Gordon Crovitz's Information Age column in the Wall Street Journal today, compares the threat to Google and other IT-based companies to that posed by the Barbary Pirates to American seafarers in 1805. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704562504575022251970284896.html
I think that's a valid analogy. And, as he says, that means our government has to pay attention. It has to take steps to keep American businesses safe from government-sponsored cyber-criminals. I don't think the Obama administration has started to grapple with this, although I hope I'm wrong.
It's definitely something government should be moving on quickly. Shutting down or fooling operations like Google or Citigroup or Union Pacific or Apple's app store or even the L.A. traffic light system, could put a big dent in the world's economic system.
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Ironically, Bill, when I went to sign up to follow your blog via Friend Connect, I got an error message: Google Friend Connect should be back in less than 2 hours. I understand your nervousness. Being solely dependent on 'the cloud' could prove to be equally exhilarating and exasperating. Happy to get you a discounted version of Office if you don't want to be so far on 'the edge.' :-)
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