On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Kent, Larry CTR US USA <[email protected]> wrote: > Did all you Gmail Grassones see this one….?
It's the source code to an SSO (single sign-on) system. Directly, doesn't seem like a big deal. Even to Google -- it was an internal only system, so it's not like they'll be loosing sales. And it's unlikely anyone else will have much use for it -- all the big players wouldn't risk the exposure of using stolen intellectual property, and if you're not a big player you don't have a use for a giant SSO system. If there's some security-through-obscurity vulnerability that will be exposed due to this, well, that would be a problem, but things like that are a ticking time bomb anyway. Indirectly, makes me wonder what *else* might have been stolen. Fortunately for me, I don't use Google for anything that isn't already semi-public (e.g., Internet email) anyway. If I were running private stuff on Google systems, I'd be worried. (But I'd have been worried anyway, which is why I'm not. I don't trust "cloud services" for most things, regardless of who they're from. Others are entitled to disagree.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
