Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks—For Free:
“This isn’t about revenue,” says Jigsaw president Jared Cohen, a former staffer at the U.S. State Department who helped lead the agency’s Internet freedom campaigns during the Arab Spring. He points to Google’s larger mission statement, saying, “When we talk about organizing the world’s information and making it available and useful…you have to make sure that once people have access to the information, it doesn’t get DDOS attacked, it doesn’t get compromised, it doesn’t get censored in a politically motivated way.”
Preventing DDOS attacks, Jigsaw engineers and execs argue, is good for the Internet. And what’s good for the internet, they say, is good for Google. “We just don’t think that DDOS attacks should exist,” Cohen says. “We hope that Shield can do for DDOS attacks what Gmail did for spam.”
Source: Wired