Google China hackers stole source code

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100303/ttc-uk-china-google-fe50bdd.html

by rmorrison • 16 years ago

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dirtbox2• 16 years ago

While reading that, for a moment I though that Google were using McAfee security and seriously pondered the wisdom in using their services anymore.

ErrantX• 16 years ago

Nothing wrong with Mcafee enterprise. :-)

mfukar• 16 years ago

It's only trivial to bypass, nothing else wrong with it.

u238• 16 years ago

Why is Google storing source code on 3rd party servers?!

mkelly• 16 years ago

The article never said that; just that they use Perforce.

jrockway3• 16 years ago

It's not really stealing if Google still has the source code. Unless reading a book is now called "stealing a book".

Groxx4• 16 years ago

Just like "stealing" company secrets isn't stealing? Are you implying that intellectual property can't be stolen?

jrockway3• 16 years ago

Implying? No.

rmorrison• 16 years ago

Stuff like this is why it's important for all developers to study computer security. It is possible to create computer systems such that malicious users are unlikely to break into them, even if they have the entire system's source code. For example, look at heavily used open source software.

It seems like a lot of developers write closed source, commercial systems with the assumption that malicious users will never see it.

yesimahuman• 16 years ago

Perhaps they don't have enough of an incentive to make it bullet proof. That or they aren't given enough time to do so. Let's admit it, we all make mistakes, and if you aren't given enough time to analyze your code, security issues might very well make it into production.

hazzen• 16 years ago

Does anyone else feel that this article is both poorly written and furthermore just bad reporting? I was curious about the original source, which I tracked down to a blog post by George Kurtz and several links on it [1].

It seems to only claim that source control services are a good target and are frequently configured with no security (which is A Bad Thing), but does not blame Perforce as an attack vector. The article implies, however, that Perforce was used as an attack vector which does not appear to be the case. Of course, it is very hard to discern what the article actually says when they spend one sentence per idea, with no further explanation or investigation.

[1] http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/source-code-repositories-target...

Google China hackers stole source code

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