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Comment by eternalban | Hacker News Reader

So everytime you want to communicate you ping Google's servers?

No.

First, like CT you want an ecosystem of logs.

Second, you have caching and in-band exchanges as means to mitigate some of that.

I didn't see any evidence of them suggesting that.

What are the implications of this?

    Get a /service account key/ and download the generated JSON file.

    The service account key is used to verify client OAuth tokens.