On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
I just wrote a blog on the subject called "the fog of cyberwar": http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2010/01/fog_of_cyberwar.html
In short: While we are all talking of Google's morals and US/China diplomacy, there are some questions that mostly remain unasked:
1. Did Google hack a Taiwanese server to investigate the breach? If so, good for them. Our ethics need to catch up to our morals, as we usually wake up to a new world others created for us, a few years too late. But, for now, it's still illegal so some details would be nice.
From your blog post: "While reporting is vague, Google has supposedly broken into a server in Taiwan (unless information of working through Taiwanese authorities, or that someone else has done this for Google, becomes available)."
So... you're taking incomplete information hyped up by "tech" reporters operating based on leaks from people tangential to an investigation as fact, and deciding that if Google doesn't tell you the details of an ongoing criminal investigation that you'll assume they broke the law. Damian -- Damian Menscher :: Security Reliability Engineer :: Google