U.S. required "backdoors" enabled Gmail hacks
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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.
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.
Know you know.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/2...oogle.hacking/
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There is no freedom, freedom is a delusion.
Straight out of Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Straight out of Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
No, those phrases don't really fit with the theme of 1984. Perhaps you are thinking of "Freedom is Slavery"
Straight out of Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
That comment shows one of two things (solarein's comment applies as well but on it's own merits unrelated to the below).
1) You have never read 1984.
or
2) If you read it, you completely missed getting it.
If both of those were not true you would never have posted what you did -- conceptually (my rebuttal), or factually (solarein's).
Google built in a backdoor capability for GOOGLE's convenience.
Period.
Google building in a backdoor so Google can more easily comply with a subpoena wasn't a government driven necessity, it was a convenience hack driven by a laziness in handling the record-keeping design up front. Hacks of this flavor (the flavor of shortcuts to get around earlier less than optimal decisions) are almost always regretted later on. And seeing this is pure schadenfreude, when they were the ones to cry foul on being hacked! They apparently screwed it up relying on security through obscurity.
There is no freedom, freedom is a delusion.
Freedom is a state of mind.