well, that isn’t exactly true. ALL of the fraudsters, business email compromisers, spoofing accounts are now from gmail and as far as i can tell, there is no evidence that they do ANYTHING about them. i recently gave a talk on fraudulent restaurant reviews in google maps. easy for humans to spot. (hundreds of machine learning engineers at google. what are they doing?) but here’s a counterexample… not that it serves anyone particularly well: a colleague of mine (ex googler, superb engineer, with a brother who is a current googler) had ALL of his google accounts deactivated recently. a google fi customer, he used it to send an mms photo of a rash on his toddler’s crotch to his wife, so she could upload it (using https) to their pediatrician’s portal for diagnosis. a few days later the cops were at the door with a search warrant. the cops agreed it was a false positive, but despite that, the accounts were deactivated (including gmail), seemingly permanently, despite multiple attempts to revive it and attempts at escalation. i was actually surprised. i thought that google fi was a neutral pipe. who knew that google mines mms images for pink parts? do the other cell phone companies do the same? (not that i particularly need to test it…) (is there any transparency here regarding the scanning and retention policy for sms and mms contents?) which raises, in the post-boggs world, another question: are google, like fb, recording and retaining direct messages and sms/mms contents, so they can turn them over to law enforcement who have become “interested" in who was pregnant and who stopped being pregnant? https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police... (once again, there ain’t no sanity clause.)
On Aug 16, 2022, at 10:43 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, Cristian Cardoso wrote:
Hi I'm receiving thousands of requests from a Google Clou VM on my network, I've already sent reports to Abuse from GCP, but without success, does anyone happen to have a Google abuse contact to indicate?
There is no Google abuse. It's just traffic you don't want that they don't care about. Block it at your edge and move on.
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