Google Announces Project Zero Initiative
Summary
Internet security and SSL encryption have always been on Google's top priority list The tech giant has invested a fortune in its our products, including strong default SSL encryption and data encryption. The always-on SSL adds muscle to Gmail, Goolge Drive and Search features.
Apart from securing its own products, savvy Googlers also spend some quality time on research to make the Internet a safer place, which lead to the discovery of Heartbleed OpenSSL bug.
Project Zero From Google
Google's part-time research team's success in various other areas has led to founding of a new, well-staffed security research team called Project Zero.
According to the research team, users should be able to best use the Internet without fear that a hacker is
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The American corporate is hiring only the best security researchers who can contribute their fullest, of mind and time, toward enhancing security across the World Wide Web.
Google is not placing specific bounds on this project and aims only to elevate the security of any software depended by a substantial population.
The team will pay careful attention to the methods, targets, and inspirations of hackers using standard approaches. Further, the security team will conduct new research into exploitations, mitigations, and program analysis; practically anything it deems important.
Google is committed to transparently working. Every bug discovered is filed in an external database and are reported only to the software's manufacturer and not third parties.
Once the bug report becomes public, users can perform vendor performance monitoring, discussion exploitability, and view crash traces. In addition, Google sends real-time bug reports to manufacturers, and works with them to fix patches to users in quick
We now accept the sharing and digital storage of our personal information as a necessary evil. We continue to incorporate, into our lives, technology that uses this data. Microsoft and Google are envisioning and developing ways to commercialize the use of even more of our stored personal information.
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In the rapidly developing field of computer science, there is no more controversial issue than encryption. Encryption has become a highly contested issue with the broad use of global networks including the Internet. As more and more sensitive documents are being placed on computer networks, and trusted information is being sent from computer to computer throughout the world, the need for encryption has never been greater. However, the effects of encryption on our lifestyle and the government's role in encryption has been (and will continue to be) debated for years to come.
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Howard Gardner is the “John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero” (Gardner bio, Multiple Intelligences and Education, MI Theory, and Project Zero). As director of Project Zero, it provided and environment that Gardner could begin the exploration of human cognition (Multiple Intelligences and Education). Project Zero colleagues have been designing assessment and the use of multiple intelligences (MI) to realize more personalized curriculum, instruction, and teaching methods; and the quality of crossing traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought in education (Gardner bio). MI theories offer tools to educators that will allow more people to master learning in an effective way and to help people “achieve their potential at the workplace, in occupations, and in the service of the wider world” (Gardner papers).
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