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CTOnews.com, July 19, according to foreign media CNBC, Google will launch a new pilot program today, some employees can only use the internal network for office, can not access the Internet, Google claimed that this is to reduce the risk of cyber attacks.

Google said that many hackers have invaded Google in history, and that if Google employees' devices are compromised, hackers can directly access user data and infrastructure code, leading to major accidents and undermining user trust. So Google decided to prevent hackers from hacking by "physical means" to ensure that hackers could not easily access data remotely.

▲ image source CNBCCTOnews.com found in the report that Google initially asked more than 2500 employees to participate in the program, but after receiving some feedback, Google revised the pilot program to allow employees to quit and open the program to volunteers.

Google will disable the Internet on selected office devices, and employees can only use intranet tools and Google-owned services such as Gmail and Google's cloud hard drives.

▲ source CNBC it is reported that some employees will also lose root access, which means they will not be able to run administrator commands or perform operations such as installing software. Google said in the pilot program materials that the pilot test did not include some "employees who need the Internet to work".

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