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Government spies in the Shanghai office stealing Google's source tree seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. I guess China will just build th
by andreyf 17y ago
Government spies in the Shanghai office stealing Google's source tree seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. I guess China will just build their own Google now...
The NYT article explicitly says the opposite: "attackers may have succeeded in penetrating elaborate computer security systems and obtaining crucial corporate data and software source code, though Google said it did not itself suffer losses of that kind". In general, that's not the language I hear them using - "broad", "sophisticated", and "targeting infrastructure of a variety of major corporations".
- gwern 17y agoFWIW, Wikileaks is saying that they were 'infiltrating' the Google repos: http://twitter.com/wikileaks/ http://twitter.com/wikileaks/ (and specifically http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7688415363 http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7688415363 ). The NYT is simply parroting Google, so I give Wikileaks more credence. (Colloquially, you can be 'stealing' something while haven't yet actually absconded with it yet, and be foiled if discovered.)
- wrs 17y agoWikileaks: "Several rumours from google sources that China accessed google's US-gov intercept system which provides gmail subjects/dates" I'm remembering recent news about convenient gov't web portals to telecom records...