CNet got to talk to Google vice president of engineering, Douglas Merill, employee at the company since 2003. Douglas, who got his first experiences with web security when he hacked white supremacist discussion boards in Arkansas, says "We don"t yet know what all the things are that can break in these interesting, exciting, new, highly interactive Web applications ... We believe we are at the forefront of a new science. We all have to invent the wheel in Web security." He adds that "security is the coolest kind of problem because it is never solved."
Google"s core security crew has about 50 members, CNet reports, though (naturally) all Google employees are responsible for ...
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