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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Paul Ferguson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Joel Esler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Did anyone else think that there are two parts to that Google attack?
>>  Spearphishing, and it just seemed like there was another part, the part
>> involving other companies?
>>
>
> This is the most plausible explanation I have heard:
>
> "The US flaw-hunting specialist said that the attack was an attempt to
> steal source code on an industrial scale and was, in many cases, probably
> successful. If correct, this might explain why Google has by its own
> normally quite restrained standards gone ballistic to the extent of
> threatening to quit China."
>
> http://news.techworld.com/security/3210137/google-hack-hit-33-other-compa
> ni es/
>
> Having been in contact with the "US flaw-hunting specialist" mentioned
> above, this lines up pretty accurately.
>

Looks like the law firm that is suing China over Green Dam was also
targeted:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=29533

- - ferg

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