Comments on: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google http://www.hackernews.com/2010/02/04/u-s-enables-chinese-hacking-of-google/ All content © 2009, 2010 SRT Studios, LLC Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:11:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tan http://www.hackernews.com/2010/02/04/u-s-enables-chinese-hacking-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-92 tan Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:05:23 +0000 http://www.hackernews.com/?p=2071#comment-92 It's funny - you can see when Google first started to react to this issue here: http://www.hackernews.com/2010/01/17/google-spanking-inspires-basic-basic-gmail-change/. So in those first 2 weeks of January, Google started hitting the lowest hanging fruits on the gmail security tree. It makes me wonder - was this just a Phishing attack or was it the SSL client-initiated renegotiation bug? Also, are "NSA backdoors" just bugs these days? Adding bugs as a covert way of installing a back door is not a new idea. In fact, I've personally run into bugs that seemed more like backdoors than mistakes. It’s funny – you can see when Google first started to react to this issue here: http://www.hackernews.com/2010/01/17/google-spanking-inspires-basic-basic-gmail-change/. So in those first 2 weeks of January, Google started hitting the lowest hanging fruits on the gmail security tree.

It makes me wonder – was this just a Phishing attack or was it the SSL client-initiated renegotiation bug?

Also, are “NSA backdoors” just bugs these days? Adding bugs as a covert way of installing a back door is not a new idea. In fact, I’ve personally run into bugs that seemed more like backdoors than mistakes.

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