Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/14/10 12:31 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mshel...@cox.net wrote: From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the picture to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies the common community the recipients belong to.

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
The Google Spokesperson I heard on the radio yesterday evening said that they had not yet stopped censoring, and declined to give a date when they would. His point was that the clock is ticking and Google can see it. On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Jérôme Fleury wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Anthony Uk wrote: The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. I'm not Chinese, but putting myself in their position... I would be surprised if they were trying to

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Randy Bush
i am confused here, which is not at all unusual. did the chinese get any data which google does not give to american LEAs in answer to an administrative request, i.e. not even a court order? randy

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2010-01-15 Thread Adam Fields
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: i am confused here, which is not at all unusual. did the chinese get any data which google does not give to american LEAs in answer to an administrative request, i.e. not even a court order? You mean why didn't they just ask for it

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:18 AM, Benjamin Billon wrote: Seems logical, after all. Considering the (bad) performances of Google search engine in China compared to Chinese competitors, and considering the fact that wouldn't change a bit in the future, closing offices wouldn't be a bad thing.

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
, nah, nah, nah. You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly breaking a law is bad joo-joo. -- TTFN, patrick -Original Message- From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: more news from

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Patrick W. Gilmore: You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly breaking a law is bad joo-joo. I think we all consider their approach to copyright law refreshing and useful, so there are certainly laws worth breaking. 8-)

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2010-01-13 Thread Marshall Eubanks
. Regards Marshall You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly breaking a law is bad joo-joo. -- TTFN, patrick -Original Message- From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: more news from Google

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Jérôme Fleury
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 17:14, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote: I for one would be really happy to see them follow through with this.  I was very disappointed when they agreed to censor search results, although I can understand why

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Timmins
Jérôme Fleury wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 17:14, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote: I for one would be really happy to see them follow through with this. I was very disappointed when they agreed to censor search results,

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Jorge Amodio
You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country.  But blatantly breaking a law is bad joo-joo. OT. Please don't say joo-joo every time the TechCrunch folks see that they get diarrhea Cheers Jorge PS what about all the property and copyright laws being supposedly broken over there ?

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2010-01-13 Thread Joel Esler
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: You don't like the law, don't do biz in that country. But blatantly breaking a law is bad joo-joo. OT. Please don't say joo-joo every time the TechCrunch folks see that they get diarrhea That is a horrible name for a product. Just

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Michael Smith
13, 2010 12:24 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: more news from Google I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous position/postings having read this article. I just can't figure out their /ANGLE/. :) /cynic http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Uk
On 13.01.2010 06:24, Ken Chase wrote: I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous position/postings having read this article. I just can't figure out their /ANGLE/. :)/cynic http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html Well played, google? /kc From

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-13, at 11:31, Anthony Uk wrote: The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. It's arguably something that gmail users consent to when they give Google rights to index and process their mail,

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Ronald Cotoni
You should most likely read their terms of service and that would actually answer this instead of guessing. Also, if your reading your own employee's email, that is most likely perfectly legal. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2010-01-13, at 11:31,

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-13, at 14:51, Ronald Cotoni wrote: You should most likely read their terms of service and that would actually answer this instead of guessing. I've read the terms of service. I may be interpreting them incorrectly, sure, but I'm not guessing. If your comment was not directed at

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:31:44 +0100, Anthony Uk said: Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. I have orders of magnitude fewer users than gmail does, and often look at their mailboxes

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:31:44PM +0100, Anthony Uk wrote: I have orders of magnitude fewer users than gmail does, and often look at their mailboxes (with their consent, of course), but I still couldn't tell you the political position of any of them (apart from the

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
-Original Message- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:49 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: more news from Google It's not clear to me you have to read any e-mail to figure out that help_us_free_ti...@gmail.com might be someone who's

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Israel
Joe Abley wrote: On 2010-01-13, at 11:31, Anthony Uk wrote: The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. It's arguably something that gmail users consent to when they give Google rights to

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:31:44 +0100, Anthony Uk said: Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. I have orders of magnitude fewer users than gmail does, and

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mshel...@cox.net wrote: From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the picture to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies the common community the recipients belong to. It's pretty straight forward. The magic

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Stefan Fouant
-Original Message- From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: more news from Google I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous position/postings having read this article. I just can't figure

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Greco
On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mshel...@cox.net wrote: From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the picture to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies the common community the recipients belong to. It's pretty straight forward.

more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Ken Chase
I must say I'll have to take a step back from my previous position/postings having read this article. I just can't figure out their /ANGLE/. :) /cynic http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html Well played, google? /kc -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca - +1 416

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Stefan Fouant
through with it... Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIE-M/T www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D -Original Message- From: Ken Chase [mailto:m...@sizone.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:24 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: more news from Google I must say I'll have to take

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Benjamin Billon
Seems logical, after all. Considering the (bad) performances of Google search engine in China compared to Chinese competitors, and considering the fact that wouldn't change a bit in the future, closing offices wouldn't be a bad thing. That doesn't mean closing RD centers. Ben Le 13/01/2010