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Google Gives Free Security Keys to Activists, But Not if You're in Iran or Syria

vendredi 26 avril 2019, 16:47 , par Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: Go to an activist, technologist, or journalist gathering, and you may find a free pile of Google's security keys, dubbed Titan. These are small devices a Gmail user can plug into their computer via USB to make their account much harder to hack. The keys don't just work with Google accounts; Twitter and other large sites now support hardware security tokens too. But if you're an activist inside Iran, Sudan, Syria, Cuba, the region of Crimea, or North Korea, Google probably won't give you a Titan key. Google bars nonprofits and other groups from providing these tools, or promoting the availability of any Google product to activists in those countries, according to two independent sources familiar with Google's approach and a legal document viewed by Motherboard.

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