In Complying With The Law, Google's System Was Insecure To Hackers
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on January 24th, 2010
Bruce Schneier from CNN wrote an article on how Google was compromised by Chinese hackers, and he mentioned that for being complying to the law Google had built a backdoor to aid the US government in gaining access to users’ accounts easier — the Chinese hackers used this backdoor to hack Google’s users accounts. In a sense, Google’s system is very similar to Windows, because it emphasizes on convenience over security. So to speak, in a way Google needs to apply Linux’s vision as to create a system with security at heart which means closing down all backdoors in Google’s system. More.
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