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ZDNet.com reported in 2010 [1] (and others [2]), that when Google was hacked via suspected chinese hackers, that their "internal spy system was the target". ..

ZDNet.com reported in 2010 [1] (and others [2]), that when Google was hacked via suspected chinese hackers, that their "internal spy system was the target". ...they [hackers] apparently were able to access a system used to help Google comply with search warrants by providing data on Google users, said a source familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. "Right before Christmas, it was, 'Holy s!@#, this malware is accessing the internal intercept [systems],'" he said. I guess this could be the system that google uses to compile the data before transmission, or something else, but none the less, it does raise questions. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/googles-internal-spy-system-was-chinese-hacker-target/1047 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/googles-internal-spy-syst... [2] http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/google-aurora-hack-was-chinese-counteres/240155268 http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/google-auror...

rasterizer 13y ago
I assume they need to know what data to send; the "system" might refer to the database with FISA orders.
- gwgarry 13y ago
  Or it could mean Google is lying or just trying to create rhetoric to confuse the public to keep them from looking for alternatives to their search engine and other services.
magicalist 13y ago
Isn't that referring to this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/chinese-hackers-who-breached-google-reportedly-targeted-classified-data/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/chinese-hackers-who-... ? which appears to have been a list of people that had been targets of "surveillance orders", which would have given the Chinese intel on any operatives that were being watched by the US, but isn't the "backdoor access system" that Schneier said it was at the time (seemingly without a source, but it's hard to tell as he doesn't say where that information comes from and no one else seems to have picked it up subsequently). I swear that that ars story had an HN thread (maybe the washington post source article did?) but I can't find it now.

rasterizer 13y ago

I assume they need to know what data to send; the "system" might refer to the database with FISA orders.

gwgarry 13y ago
Or it could mean Google is lying or just trying to create rhetoric to confuse the public to keep them from looking for alternatives to their search engine and other services.

magicalist 13y ago

Isn't that referring to this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/chinese-hackers-who-breached-google-reportedly-targeted-classified-data/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/chinese-hackers-who-... ? which appears to have been a list of people that had been targets of "surveillance orders", which would have given the Chinese intel on any operatives that were being watched by the US, but isn't the "backdoor access system" that Schneier said it was at the time (seemingly without a source, but it's hard to tell as he doesn't say where that information comes from and no one else seems to have picked it up subsequently). I swear that that ars story had an HN thread (maybe the washington post source article did?) but I can't find it now.