World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems
It seems intuitively obvious. Disconnect your PC from the internet, and it's safe from attack. Google thinks enough of the idea to try cutting off a couple of thousand workstations from the pestilential swamp. The air gap is an experiment in increasing the cost of mounting an attack, says the company.Trying new approaches to security is a good idea, as is understanding the economic logic behind threats. Good for you, Google. It's just a shame it can't possibly work.
At a stretch, a network can be air gapped if it has no internet working, but that's already intrinsically less safe. Any device on that network will compromise all of them if an accidental, surreptitious or illicit connection is made. That's what brought down the ultra-high security Iranian centrifuges purifying uranium: no direct internet connection needed if a.
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