Washington Post and NYTimes all reported the new agreement between Google and NSA on the cyber attack incidents which led Google to claiming its quitting from China. Why would some obscure email breach ultimately drive them to this point? According to Mr. Blair, that's because these attacks are highly sophisticated and pose great threat that might equal to a cyber Pearl Harbor. However, without clear explanation or evidence, suddenly world's most advanced IT company married to the world most powerful spy agency. We have to ask, what would be the consequences of such a combination? Now, it seems more and more likely that these institutions are using the so called China threat to push for their own agenda, which is to establish a world super-cyber power to police the vast lawless web world. Surely that LAW must be American, not Freedom!
Google will benefit from the arrangement by "commercializing" the NSA technology, which means better security, survillance, and counter-intelligence. It might get tax-payer financed government technology for free. Also, by cooperating with the government, it could dominate the web sphere without even being questioned or challenged by its competitors. Google effectively becomes national security company of the American government. On the other hand, by joining Google, NSA can finally step into the private sector of the cyber world, doing all kinds of spy work that requires no search warrant due to Google invitation. It finds a new battle ground for weapon experiment offered by a global company with global reaches. That alone poses inmeasuable threat to not only China, but all other countries' national security.
This is probably the first amongst many steps following the Clinton "cyber open door" speech last month. Unfortunately, such imperialsitic move into the global internet system might have severe repressive domestic consequences in the foreseeable future.
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