Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

[Damian Menscher <damian () google com>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> I just wrote a blog on the subject called "the fog of cyberwar":
> http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2010/01/fog_of_cyberwar.html
>
> In short:
> While we are all talking of Google's morals and US/China diplomacy, there
> are some questions that mostly remain unasked:
>
> 1. Did Google hack a Taiwanese server to investigate the breach? If so, good
> for them. Our ethics need to catch up to our morals, as we usually wake up
> to a new world others created for us, a few years too late. But, for now,
> it's still illegal so some details would be nice.

> From your blog post: "While reporting is vague, Google has supposedly
broken into a server in Taiwan (unless information of working through
Taiwanese authorities, or that someone else has done this for Google,
becomes available)."

So... you're taking incomplete information hyped up by "tech"
reporters operating based on leaks from people tangential to an
investigation as fact, and deciding that if Google doesn't tell you
the details of an ongoing criminal investigation that you'll assume
they broke the law.

Damian
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Damian Menscher :: Security Reliability Engineer :: Google