You can't pass the Google hiring screen and be _dumb_. But I'm 100% willing to believe that they had no knowledge of your domain whatsoever, because the Google hiring screen is also totally generic and doesn't hire for any domain knowledge beyond "general comp sci."
It's possible that he's taking "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" to its logical if unhealthy extreme by interpreting every ambiguous 802.11 frame as one with ill intent. However, just because he's paranoid doesn't mean there aren't misaligned people, devices, and applications out there probing networks.
It's probably a good idea for anyone to check themselves every now and then by playing Angel's Advocate just as much as they might play Devil's Advocate, but I don't think rejecting his premises out of hand with a drive-by diagnosis is all that helpful.
Fair enough, but in this case there are several massive red flags that OP was experiencing a variant of "targeted individual" delusion. (The confidence without evidence that their neighbor was a determined hacker group, using a complex zero-day to attack them at home personally, tie-ins to fear/belief of this being a widespread phenomenon).
I had a stretch of a year or so a decade ago where I was going through something very similar, down to the belief a hacker group was targeting my WiFi network despite the great lengths I was going to secure it during the setup process inside an RF shielded area, yet they still kept "getting in" somehow... so I recognize the signs.
If OP can re-read their comment later on in a different mindset, they may start to notice things that felt so certain at the time don't actually add up logically in retrospect, that's how I ended up breaking out of it eventually.
They do have dedicated teams for exactly these sorts of concerns. They are also swamped with projects and so they can't review big new changes overnight. Google is very likely shipping first and asking questions later.
YouTube and AdSense are both extraordinarily profitable. Google Play and Cloud are great revenue drivers as well. Search Ads are still the king of the hill, but it's definitely not their only profitable project, and many of the "unprofitable" projects funnel traffic to profitable ones--Chrome gives Search uplift, Google Play can't exist without Android, etc.
Definitely, they found another cash printer in Youtube but to be fair, they bought that. My comment wasn’t intended to be definitive. Yes, a lot of their other products are really just funnels to their search ads though. Strategic plays have value too of course.
They bought YouTube well over a decade ago in order to jumpstart their position in streaming, once Google Video failed to take hold, and nowadays the original YouTube would be unrecognizable. It's not like they didn't have the chops to build it, or the business acumen to make it profitable; they just acqui-hired a competitor in the space.
That's... pretty much how every free trial works? Try signing up for a free month of Amazon Prime or Netflix and see what happens. The entire point of the promotion is retention.
It wasn't a subscription. My expectation was that it would simply stop once it hit $0. Not really here to argue about it. The tldr is I don't trust Google with this stuff anymore.
They started off behind, and have been scrambling to catch up. This means they didn't get the extra year of design-doc hell before shipping, so mistakes were made.
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