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发帖数: 8138 | 1 你好,尼可拉斯：
我是Google的帕特里克。
我看过你的Github和LinkedIn资料以及你的个人网站(我们发现了你的panic_bcast项目
)，我们希望能和你见面交谈，在Google有许多工程师的工作等着你。
你在开源领域的成果和项目、系统/网络方面的经验和软件开发背景和我们这里的某些
工程师所做的工作有关联。但是我还是想跟你联系一下，好知道更多关于你作品方面的
信息。
如果你的行程不冲突的话，我觉得下周我们见面谈谈怎样？
我给你的职位属于某个重要任务团队，团队中有软件开发专家、网络专家、系统工程专
家，他们的工作是共同搭建一个大规模、分布巨大的容错软件系统和基础结构，并运行
这套系统。
感谢你花时间看完这封来信，祝你周末愉快。
敬祝
帕特里克
你好，帕特里克：
感谢你与我联系并赞誉panic_bcast项目，被更大的公司赏识一直是很让人高兴的。
在回答你的问题之前，我希望向你介绍一下我的背景和我与Google的关系。
Google一直以来都是技术界工作人员能想象到的最有趣的工作地，Google用十足的玩心
去践行自己“不作恶”的格言。虽然我十分崇尚意识，也是个坚持原则的人，但是我天
性好奇。小时候我对信息安全和计算机概论很有兴趣，很快开始研究怎么破解密码怎么
侵入系统，因为我觉得信息需要自由。
我爸爸很快发现了这点，找我聊了很久，聊得都是些生命的意义。他告诫我不能粗心大
意，因为未来的世界既有暴政也有弱民。他告诉我未来的权力架构很大程度上决定于今
天我们称之为解密高手和黑客的人们。
我觉得儿时父亲向我解释的未来是给今天的我的一份礼物。Google虽然一边说“不作恶
”，但另一方面却在读取用户邮箱信息，追踪用户的上网行为——这两件事我认为是赤
裸裸的邪恶。Google会读取我妈妈写的电子邮件，会追踪我朋友买了些什么。Google说
这只是广告行为，但是只有爱德华·斯诺登爆出猛料后我们才发现真相。
Google被证实暗中帮助美国和欧洲情报部门非法收集用户信息。“我们尽力抵抗过，我
们以前也尽力不作恶。”Google这样回应。可是我们从没见Google关闭过服务器表示抵
抗，就像拒绝配合政府的电子邮箱服务商Lavabit做的那样。
我们已经知道Google实际上正在对全世界大部分人民作恶，我们已经知道Google喜欢夸
耀自己这把双刃剑，我们已经知道Google的尽量开源政策只是建立在我们不破坏已有的
现金流的基础上。
我们都目睹过Google是如何致信要停止CyanogenMod(全球最大的Android编译团队)的服
务的。还说CyanogenMod修改开源系统的行为违反了某些专利。
我们都知道Google的亲善是一种市场策划方案。我们知道Google已经不是以前我们了解
的Google，现在的Google不为人性至真至善至美而拼搏，而是为了自己能赚更多美元而
拼搏。
在这点上我和Google道不同，Google目前展示的原则，以及整个Google历史中反应出的
原则和我的原则不同道。
以我的原则，我会删除Google至今为止搜集的所有的用户信数据，包括我自己的、我家
人朋友和同事的，包括Google能连接上的所有用户的数据，和Google从公共流行网站上
搜集的所有用户信息。如果我为一家直接威胁到我所爱的人的安全并追踪他们的公司效
命，夜晚的我如何入眠？
要我开发出暴政所需的工具好让Google的车轮继续碾压，我是做不到的。而我则站在
Google的对立面，你们赏识的panic_bcast工程，法律部门要想通过冷启动攻击搜集我
作为政治激进分子的证据是比较难的，我参与的其它几个项目的原因是因为我相信公共
互联网上的信息流动应该是自由不受束缚的。
有些幸运儿能够选择自己喜欢的项目工作，我就是其中一个，而且，我选择只为我认为
能为全世界人类有益的项目工作。Google在我心目中的排名还不算太高，因此，我必须
恭敬地回绝您的邀请。
“先生们，不要去看他人的信件。”——亨利·刘易斯·史汀生
希望你好运，能找到合适的人选。
敬礼
尼可拉斯
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Why I won’t work for Google
Hi Niklas,
Patrick here from Google.
I looked over your Github and LinkedIn profiles, and personal site (having
found the panic_bcast project), and was keen to get in touch regarding a
number of Engineering positions here at Google.
Your Open Source contributions and projects, Systems/Networking experience
and development background looked relevant to what some of the engineers
here are doing, but I wanted to touch base with you first to understand a
bit more about your work.
If your schedule permits it, would you be open to a conversation next week?
The positions I had wanted to share with you are part of a mission-critical
team that combines software development, networking and systems engineering
expertise to build and run large scale, massively distributed, fault-
tolerant software systems and infrastructure.
Thanks for your time and have a good weekend.
Best regards,
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
Thank you for reaching out to me and complimenting me on the panic_bcast
project, it is always flattering being recognized by entities greater than
oneself.
Before properly answering your question I would like to give you some
background about myself and my relation to Google.
As a kid growing up Google would always be the most interesting employee one
working in the technical industry could possibly imagine. Google would flex
very playfully in line with its “Don’t do evil” agenda. I grew up as a
very ideologically and principle driven individual, but foremost I was
curios by nature. As a kid interested in information security and computers
in general I quickly began exploring code by breaking it and systems by
breaking into them driven by the force that information wanted to be free.
My father found out quickly and we had a long chat about life’s importance.
He told me not to be wreckless because the future would consist of tyranny
and powerless people. He told me that in the future the world’s power
structures would depend much on what I would today categorize as cypherpunks
and hackers.
I feel that the future that my father explained to me as a kid is today’s
present. Google says “Don’t do evil” on one hand, but on another hand
Google also reads the contents of its users’ emails and tracks their
behavior on the Internet – two things which I would characterise as
directly evil. Google reads the emails that my mother is writing and
tracking what my friends are buying. For advertisement purposes, Google says
, and we only discovered the true consequences later when Edward Snowden
blew the whistle.
It turned out that Google had been helping American and European
intelligence agencies illegally wiretap their own citizens. “We tried to
fight back, we tried not to be evil!”, Google responds, but we never saw
Google shut down its service in protest like Lavabit. We never saw Google
fight back for the best of its users, which consists of a great majority of
the world’s population. We saw Google justify its data inspection by saying
that it was great for advertisement models.
We learned that Google is in fact doing very evil things to the majority of
the world’s population. We learned that Google tends to sport the two edged
sword. We learned that Google’s “open source as much as possible” policy
only applies as long as they don’t disrupt existing flows of cash.
We witnessed Google sending cease and desist letters to the developers and
maintainers of the popular Android CyanogenMod for violating some patents by
modifying open source elements of an open source licensed project.
We learned that Google’s friendliness is a marketing scheme. We learned
that Google is not what we thought it would be, that it is not fighting for
what’s best for humanity but for what’s best for its own dollar.
I am different from Google in this sense. My principles are not compatible
with those that Google is displaying and has displayed throughout history.
Due to my principles I would much rather delete all data Google has
collected about its users which consists of myself, my family, my friends,
my co-workers and everybody that they know that connects to and uses popular
services on the public Internet. I would not be able to sleep at night
knowing that I worked for a company which was directly threatening and
targeting the people that I love.
I would never be able to develop the tyrannical tools required to keep the
Google wheels spinning. I am on the opposite side of the spectra. The
project which you acknowledged, panic_bcast, I wrote to make it harder for
law enforcement officers to gather evidence on political activists through
cold boot attacks. Other projects I am mainly involved in because I believe
in a free unregulated stream of information on the public Internet.
I am one of those lucky individuals who can afford to work only on projects
which I choose, and I choose to only involve myself in projects that I
believe contribute something positive to the planet’s population. Google is
not very high on that list, therefor I must respectfully decline your job
offer.
“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” – Henry L. Stimson
I wish you good luck on your quest to find the right candidate.
Regards,
Niklas | b********7
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