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Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Post by Raphael_Amiard »

joe_the_user wrote: post #76

The sophistication and determination of this attack actually makes Google's actions more plausible. By walking in and trying to take what it viewed as Google's most valuable assets, the Chinese state signaled that Google would never win in China . The playing field wasn't just rigged by one or another forms of low-level favoritism. The state at a fairly high level had decided it was going to 'p0wn' all the competitio…

i find your argument pretty sound, but i was wondering, is there any 'evidence' that this goes up to chinese state ,except the fact that civil rights fighters account were targeted ?

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

gcb wrote: post #83
lt wrote: post #6

I find the fact that Adobe got hacked by a pdf vulnerability kinda funny.

What about inside job? most companies have offices in india, china. And even risking a moral point here, all companies have chinese employees. Hell, when I worked for a shady company here [regret] most employees used to sell the email database. what about the oposite? use employees to insert vulnerabilities instead of selling data. Will anyone run `cvs blame` on the IE4 source code?

And all companies have employees who like money. Not that I have studied this in any detail, but my recollection of the cold war is that most spies turned out to be corrupt US (or UK, etc) nationals, not russian employees.

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

falsestprophet wrote: post #68
jcl wrote: post #10

My thought while reading this: "There's someone at Google running IE?"

Running a Fortune 500 company requires a large and varied set of people: managers, marketers, accountants, janitors, and even forex traders.

Janitors with access to the source code repository? I thought Google's code was reasonably clean anyway :)

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Post by _cbsz »

coderdude wrote: post #101
_cbsz wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say it's a safe bet that stealing Google's source code wouldn't help much with replicating their datacenter infrastructure.

Baidu already uses Hadoop's HDFS and MapReduce. They also support Hypertable. I would guess that they could probably put "something" together over time.

HDFS and MapReduce have nothing to do with building and maintaining datacenters.

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Post by gcb »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #112
gcb wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about inside job? most companies have offices in india, china. And even risking a moral point here, all companies have chinese employees. Hell, when I worked for a shady company here [regret] most employees used to sell the email database. what about the oposite? use employees to insert vulnerabilities instead of selling data. Will anyone run `cvs blame` on the IE4 source code?

And all companies have employees who like money. Not that I have studied this in any detail, but my recollection of the cold war is that most spies turned out to be corrupt US (or UK, etc) nationals, not russian employees.

true. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/1623248/Google-Inves...

here's the follow up on that line of thought.

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Post by ra »

sketerpot wrote: post #90
gojomo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what better place to start than with Google and Adobe's source code? Indeed -- and especially their auto-upgrade mechanisms. There may yet be more to Google's anger that's not yet been revealed. What if the attackers didn't just look around, but changed (or tried to change) Google content/code at the source?

Google's auto-update code is open source: http://code.google.com/p/omaha/

Abobes isn't
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