are the technologists here and their contractors, will they ever make products that are as good as gmail or should they just give up and switch to the stuff that's getting built out there? >> the technology teams here are fabulous as cto, i don't oversee those. i'm aware of the issues that are going on that, you know, attack not only places like the white house but companies where i've worked before, et cetera. so the main thing there is there is a great team working on this. and they're working through it. we'll see where that goes. >> but you think that the tradition of having government contractors and government officials doing -- building their own e-mail systems, for instance, is something that makes sense at this point? >> one of the things that is exciting about what i think the president is doing, and i think it comes in some ways out of the experience with healthcare.gov, this amazing policy and legislation and plan and that it's really work, all of a sudden they kind of hit this wall of a website not working. what was great is the tech folks helped showed up to help transition

when google was building purely virtual companies, gmail, when you talking about uber clashing with the toc where do you see this headed? >> one thing happening in general, it is coming -- becoming less expensive to make things. the regulators, talented regulators are running as fast as they can to keep up with advancements. one of the opportunities that we have had, folks creating sandboxes. >> are you in the loop on drug policy -- drone policy? >> i have been here a month. it will play out. hollywood, agriculture, disaster response, they all want to use aerial view. want to protect the american people and protect our innovators to move forward. the agencies have been working hard to find safe harbors and sandboxes, places where you could fly some of this to test. i think people are in good conversations. i think people have good dialogues. >> you talk to the people at uber -- do you feel agencies are creating sandboxes, is the opposite thing happening where they are -- >> the best policy happens in all the people are at the table talking to each other and instead of having people sitt

having said that, the chinese two days later shut down all access for gmail in china. so it's not clear they are happy with the united states punishing the north koreans. it's very clear for a while now that chinese have felt that north korea is a danger for them. and i wonder if we are going to have this question about how china feels about putin in another year. rose: we conclude with arati prabhakar. >> everything we are doing is harnessing technology to deal with the world that has this today, very interesting range of challenges. we talked about when darpa started, very much a creation of the cold war. today, of course, that's not the problem we face. it's the threats that we face. it's a multi-polar world. so, yes the future directions of nation states matters for our national security. where will china go? what's russia doing? what's happening with north korea or iran? those are questions but, of course, the chronic challenges of national security today are about violent extremism flaring up, its connections to terrorism. >> bremmer and problem problem when we c

having said that, the chinese two days later shut down all access for gmail in china.are happy with the united states punishing the north koreans. it's very clear for a while now that chinese have felt that north korea is a danger for them. and i wonder if we are going to have this question about

and she gave brian gmail. and to accompany that i gave him all these crappy little chain gang tasks that he had to do -- >> that's where the name came from actually, because what happened was jonathan was like i want to give them all these little tasks and i said, okay you know look, you're managing gmail. by the way, brian also went on to be the product manager for chrome which many people don't realize the same person did both. tremendously talented guy. he got this list of tasks so i said okay, you're going to do jonathan's tasks, and he said, i'm being enslaved. so he created this little wiki page. so on the top of it, jonathan's chain gang and that's where it came from. [laughter] >> so the serious point of this is imagine a situation where you have these incredibly smart people that you can apply to questions about your business. we ultimately figured ott that what we -- out that what we really needed were some physicists, and i put them in the office next to mine. and susan you'll remember, her father w

virtual private networks to jump the great fire wall of censorship and access youtube, facebook and gmail. but many have cracked down on gpns like s astro. >> now it's becoming slower and sometimes impossible. >> it's shocking that it has gone this far. especially for those who need access outside of china and need access to america. >> it is frustrating entrepreneurs artists and academics. they cannot collaborate using google docs or access information online. >> i just need to work. i don't care why it doesn't work. i just want it to work. >> students are affected, too. they can no longer submit applications to universities. >> certain bad information should be managed according to chinese laws. so at that point i think that was the development of the internet as new circumstances arise there must be new ways to manage them. >> companies say they're working on new ways to circumvent chip's efforts to hamper them. >> they can continue to modify their software, and modify the way their servers work so it works another way. if the government comes in on x they need to open up y. it's a cat

depend on virtual private networks to jump the fire wall of internet sensors, youtube facebook and gmail. but in recent weeks, the government has cracked down on vpns like asteril. now the government is make access slow and sometimes impossible. >> it's shocking that the government has gone this far especially in china where you have a large business community that needs access outside of china. they need access back to america. >> reporter: the new crack down is frustrating entrepreneurs, artists and academics, they can't collaborate using google docs or access certain photos on. >> i'm frustrated and i just want it to work. i don't care why it doesn't work, i just want it to work. >> reporter: tsunamis are affected too. they can no longer submit online applications to harvard or princeton. the government has defended its actions saying vpns are basically unlawful in china. >> certain bad information should be managed according to chinese laws. so at that point i think that with the development of the internet as new circumstances arise there must be new ways to manage them. >> reporter

having said that, the chinese later shut down all access for gmail in china. it is not clear they are happy with the united states punishing the north koreans. it is very clear the chinese have felt that north korea is a danger for them. i wonder if we are going to have this question about how china feels about putin. >> they will begin to say putin is irrelevant? >> putin is annoying and dangerous and we kind of own him now because he is our guy, but he's a loose cannon. how much of a loose cannon is china prepared to handle? >> they have no interest in some g-2 thing. >> none at all. if there had been some interest, after 2008, it died. now, they recognize the united states is still a force to be reckoned with. >> ok, isis. you said it will spread its ideological reach beyond iraq and syria. >> that's right. the islamic state will be smaller and less effective but the reach of isis as an organization -- >> social media and the ability to articulate some message that is attractive to people in all sectors of the world? >> that exacerbates it, but it is also t

someone will break into your house and get your wallet and a piece of paper and figure out that is your gmail password. >> just pick a long word your member likes supercalifragilisticexpialidocio us? >> a longer the better because password hackers the programs or decide to try each letter of the password. if it's a well-known phrase like that they are more likely to guess at. that's why durand of march from the dictionary because those programs are not likely to guess the random words. we think we have an ability to create random words but our minds are not that random so it's better to try to come up with a way to find really random words. >> for those who are not privacy paranoid why is this important? what is the mud puddle test? >> passwords are actually important to be -- even if you don't believe a single thing i have been saying about privacy. it's becoming incredibly common so it's really important particularly your e-mail account can be used to reset your other passwords and to get into all your accounts. criminal hacking gangs are basically expert at breaking in to passwords so even

the israelis have announced they are upgrading from netanyahu to netan gmail. [ laughter ] hey, let seen't worry, whenever the joke bucket runs dry, we just head over to the joke well. so, join me in my walk. [ applause ] very simply, when you get to the old town joke well, you just attach the bucket and then we very slowly lower it until we hear it hit water. [ laughter ] [ hit water ] there we go. you know it's real water because if it was just a sound effect, why would they wait that long? and now let's bring it back up. oh, boy. yeah. a lot of extra rope, right? oh, here we go. [ cheers and applause ] all right. so, there's got to be a good one in here. police arrested a pennsylvania man after he smoked a joint inside a police station. cops are still looking for a cell large enough to accommodate his giant balls. that's a joke. the joke well never fails. so what do we do? we staple it, we stamp it, we ring the bell and we sound the horn. [ air horn ] [ laughter ] hate that part. now, we take all the completed jokes and we put them into the joke bucket -- >> seth? seth? is that you?

are the technologists here and their contractors, will they ever make products that are as good as gmail or should they just give up and switch to the stuff that's getting built out there? >> the technology teams here are fabulous as cto, i don't oversee those. i'm aware of the issues that are going on that, you know, attack not only places like the white house but companies where i've worked before, et cetera. so the main thing there is there is a great team working on this. and they're working through it. we'll see where that goes. >> but you think that the tradition of having government contractors and government officials doing -- building their own e-mail systems, for instance, is something that makes sense at this point? >> one of the things that is exciting about what i think the president is doing, and i think it comes in some ways out of the experience with healthcare.gov, this amazing policy and legislation and plan and that it's really work, all of a sudden they kind of hit this wall of a website not working. what was great is the tech folks helped showed up to help transition

a lot of people here use resources like gmail to communicate. google is an important search tool. harder to work efficiently here. and of course, food safety is another big one. many things to turn people from coming here. thank you.e ha, syriza partyerity has won the election in greece. the outgoing prime minister has conceded defeat. the party exploited growing public anger at the budget cuts demand by international creditors. the economy has shrunk by about a quarter in 2010. use them -- youth unemployment is running at 50%. japan has reacted with disbelief that2 -- two of its nationals may have been killed and i -- by isis in syria. the prime minister shinzo abe had offered $200 million in the fight against extremism. the united states says it is prepared to step up sanctions on russia amid a surge in violence in ukraine. at least 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when rockets hit a strategically important port over the weekend. this came just hours after separatists rejected peace talks and promised new offensives. cheap oil has benefited a lot of countries arou

can we compete with gmail with products that are free from the competition? when you look at the apple ecosystem, soon they will have a watch. they talk so brilliantly together. if i were microsoft i would change the name of the company to xbox. do you really want microsoft? it shows how quickly the industry moves. >> they are right under microsoft. we did not get to talk about this yesterday, the headlines that microsoft makes on other products like thehol holo lens. >> i think they want to show that they are on a cutting edge of innovation. facebook got so much attention for their acquisition of oculist. they have success with things that don't interface with the average consumer or business user. the problem is they are facing a new kind of competition. they are not competing with the old world of technology. they are competing with amazon. they are happy to cut prices many times on a monthly or faster basis. microsoft 365, they are trying to go up against amazon. they are having a much lower margin. >> cori, stay with me. we're going to talk about melissa

castro fidel castro anybody down there saying that they wanted everyone to have ipads, smartphones gmail siskos servers and routers and the rest of it and if you are a cuban and you are in the ministry of communications and someone from the u.s. comes with hardware at some point you're going to say how do we know it's not compromise before it arrives or that it can be compromise once it gets here? you people don't have the greatest reputation when it comes to securing your hardware. and i'm not making a joke but these are real listed business decisions that cuba is likely to continue to look at china and russia and brazil and other places where they have political interests, where the governments are financed and ex-im bank is going to start getting involved. that's not going to happen here. they prefer to deal with government entities so most of their existing trading partners were all of a lot of money and cuba and has $14 billion in much of it hasn't been serviced on a regular basis. they are horrible credit risk, horrible. so the countries have and they know that. >> can i say someth

will castro, fidel castro, anybody down there saying they want everyone to have ipads smartphones gmail cisco servers and routers and the rest of it. if you are a cuban and someone from the u.s. comes with hardware, at some point you will say, how do we know it is not compromised before it arrives or that it can be compromised once a gets here? you people do not have the greatest reputation when it comes to securing your hardware. these are real -- these are realistic business decisions that cuba is likely to continue to look at china and russia and brazil and other places where they have political interest, where the governments will finance. they would prefer to deal with government entities. most of their existing trading partners were owed a lot of money. cuba has $14 billion in foreign debt. there have -- they are a horrible credit risk. the countries in their know that. -- in there know that. >> a lot will depend on how realistic the u.s. government is. there is a schizophrenia in cuba. they are a communist country. raul castro reaffirms that. but they are opening to the world mor

i missed anybody down there saying that they wanted everyone to have ipads, smartrpa gmail,cisco receivableserversrest of them. if you're a cuban and someone from the u.s. comes with hardware, at some point, you're going to say how do we know it's not compromised before it arrives? or that it can be compromised once it gets here. you people don't have the greatest reputation when it comes to securing your hardware. not making a joke, but these are realistic business decisions that cuba%@,b is likely to continue to look at china and look at russia and brazil and other places where them political interests, where the governments will finance, unless it's f.a.s. or u.s.d.a. that's not going to happen here. they prefer to deal with government entities. so most of their existing trading parter ins who were owed a lot of money, cuba has all of this data. almost $14 billion. much of it hasn't been serviced. they're a horrible credit risk. horrible.zañ÷ so the countries that have already moved in there, they know that.üav:ry >> can i say something about rule-making? >> certainly. if you can be brief.taahv

since i joined gmail in 2006 they have been storing all of my searches and that's a long time. when i started to look at my searches i realized how revealing they were. they were far more revealing that my addresses because it was a map of every single day. i would wake up in the morning and google the weather and then i would google something about something with my kids school and then i would look at what article i was researching. then i would start shopping for on line kids clothing. you could see in my mind making as little leaps and the idea there was a record of the mental madness that goes on really disturbed me and i quit using google search after that. >> we will talk about the alternatives and how you coped with them but there was more that struck me. you got your tsa records and found the description of why you were going abroad for reporting trip was reported to private companies pay. >> this was shocking. i went to the customs and border patrol and they said give me the record. it was one of a few sets of files that you can obtain from the government fairly easil

still to come when we come back you know about gmail and yahoo! mail but what about amazon mail?atest venture. we always have a new one. we'll talk about it. later it's earnings central. the dow chemical ceo is going to join us and hologic boss is going to be with us. squawk box returns after the short break. we're back in a moment. >>> welcome back. after a couple of rough days for the markets we have been watching the u.s. equity futures. dow futures up 65 points and s&p up by 65 points and nasdaq up as well. we'll continue to watch as we get closer to the opening bell. amazon has mail. the internet giant is getting into the corporate e-mail market. it's launching work mail. amazon says it would offer the service to companies at a monthly cost of $4 per in box. work mail is the latest transfer in amazon's transformation. still to come r many stats on what we eat when it snows and what we drink when we eat. and later andrew liveris on his company's quarter report and we'll talk politics with bill daily and markets and the economy with liz ann saunders. markets -- squawk box will