more news from Google
msheldon at cox.net
msheldon at cox.net
Wed Jan 13 22:26:22 UTC 2010
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.
Mike
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From: Nathan Eisenberg
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: RE: more news from Google
Sent: Jan 13, 2010 12:53 PM
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> From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bicknell at ufp.org]
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> It's not clear to me you have to read any e-mail to figure out that
> "help_us_free_tibet at gmail.com" might be someone who's taking a
> political position. A search company may also, say, look for e-mail
> addresses listed on the web sites that must be censored, and when it's
> the same list being hacked, draw a conclusion.
It's also possible that far less questionable means are being utilized. Perhaps there are a sufficient number of pro-free-speech'ers at Google.cn (which is presumably largely composed of Chinese nationals) that are privy to such information. It only takes one guy going "hey! I know some of these email addresses!"...
Nathan
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