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Does this have anything to do with the backdoor API, or were the passwords just brute forced?
by motters 15y ago
Does this have anything to do with the backdoor API, or were the passwords just brute forced?
- drivebyacct2 15y agoNeither, did you read the post?
- yanw 15y agoThere are no 'backdoor' shenanigans, they comply with subpoenas like everyone else (they uniquely provide a transparency report) the Schneier claim was speculative and he dismissed it later. In this case it's phishing, read the post.
- andrewcooke 15y agodo you know where he dismissed it? the article at http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html is still up, with no disclaimer or obvious link to a correction.
- jonknee 15y agoA week or two later on his blog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_on.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_o... "The rumor that China used a system Google put in place to enable lawful intercepts, which I used as a news hook for this essay, has not been confirmed. At this point, I doubt that it's true."
- andrewcooke 15y agothanks. i didn't know that. given how famous the other essay is, he should really update it...
- andrewcooke 15y agowhy do people downvote questions like this? it makes no sense to me at all. am i doing something wrong? i thought i was polite and on-topic.
- nl 15y agoI've noticed this a lot lately. People seem to randomly downvote a post they think is "wrong", with no explanation. Asking for one seems to make it worse. (eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586625 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586625. Perhaps I was a touch rude, but a better response would have been to reply politely, point out where I was wrong and make me seem like a small-minded fool. Instead, downvotes are the response.)