An activity report to be tackled by Google ideas will be released to protect Internet freedom

In a situation where government agencies are making unreasonable attacks to censor expressions on the Internet or to pursue malfunction by cyber attacking a specific site and destroying inconvenient existence in public authority And I am normalizing in the area. In order to counter this unreasonable intervention of public authority, Google will issue technical ideas and actually provide technologies and services, thereby enabling freedom of expression on the Internet and activities to ensure freedom of action going. Think tank where its activity result is based in New YorkGoogle ideasIt is announced from.

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◆ Project Shield
Everyone can freely express their opinions on the Internet and anyone can freely browse it. The power of "freedom of expression" such as this Internet can be subject to attack as occasionally inconvenient to public authority. For example, a specific site transmitting information inconvenient for the public authority side,DoS attackIt is said that the unlawful exercise of public power is going to be carried out all over the world by driving a network attack called dysfunction.

It looks like this when you visualize the DDoS attack that occurred during the election period of Nigeria in 2014.


"Project Shield" is designed to counteract the exercise of these unfair public powers. For example, organizations that engage in referendums on independence and organizations that perform human rights protection activities often have limited human and physical resources, so they often can not deal with DDoS attacks, and be held down by being attacked There is. So, GoogleReverse proxyIt is said that it is offering "Shield" service which can reduce the load of the server using technology called "shield" which can protect specific sites from unfair attacks.


◆ Digital Attack Map
It is "Digital Attack Map" that you can display and visualize cyber attacks occurring somewhere in the world on the map all the time 24 hours a day.

This is an image showing the extremist factions of DDS attacked by the remote control of computers around the world against the caricatures published by French weekly newspaper Charlie Ebud. According to Trend Micro's survey. There is an underground market that can rent from DDoS attack network about 150 dollars (about 18,000 yen).


The Digital Attack Map at Hong Kong's anti-government demonstration "Umbrella Movement" held in 2014 is like this. You can see how attacks are taking place not only from China, but from machines all over the world that are made into bots.


The raw data used in DDoS attacks is complicated and hard to decipher, so it is very difficult to quickly see the full picture of attacks. Therefore, it is the Digital Attack Map that made visualization so that common people who are not in computer science can easily understand the existence of attacks. Digital Attack Map, Arbor Networks'ATLASWe are using data provided by.

◆ Password Alert
Phishing e-mails aimed at stealing passwords are flying across the globe and attacks aimed at specific targets such as journalists and human rights activists are carried out. Of course, if the password is stolen, direct damage such as information being stolen or sending mail without permission happens, but "It may be that information exchange may be monitored" Google points out that protecting passwords is extremely important, as it only causes doubts and causes a shrinkage effect that makes the activity hesitant.

So, Google has a feature in Chrome that displays a warning when entering the same password as the Google Account password on a service that is not a genuine Google service such as a fake phishing site.


Already released as Chrome extension "Password Alert".


By prompting password change, it prevents password leakage.


You can see how to use this Chrome extension in the following article.

Official Chrome extension that prevents password theft from spoofing websites impersonating Google services "Password Alert" - GIGAZINE


In addition to these functions, Google ideas can also search information that finds traces of activities of international criminal organizations and traces of money launderingInvestigative Dashboard"Small Arms & amp; Ammunition Data" which can investigate the movement route of small firearms and explosives, and other activities that we have been working on are also reported.