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This may not be PRISM, but wtf is this??? "A US government-mandated backdoor allowed China to hack into Gmail" "In order to comply with government search warr
by sinnerswing 13y ago
This may not be PRISM, but wtf is this???
"A US government-mandated backdoor allowed China to hack into Gmail"
"In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin...
- gohrt 13y agoSchneier is a smart guy, but he provides no evidence, links, or conjecture of what this backdoor may be. Maybe those hackers just used the regular tech support "back door", as in "SELECT * FROM gmail where email = 'target@gmail.com'