[121259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Jan 13 17:17:05 2010
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:15:00 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:31:44 +0100, Anthony Uk said:
>
>> "Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the
>> attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights
>> activists. "
>
>> I have orders of magnitude fewer users than gmail does, and often look
>> at their mailboxes (with their consent, of course), but I still couldn't
>> tell you the political position of any of them (apart from the politicians).
>
> If you can tell the political position of the politicians by looking at their
> mailboxes, you can probably tell the political position of a suspected human
> rights activist by looking at their mailbox. Remember - the Chinese government
> doesn't care about the users who's political position can't be identified.
> They care about the ones that *can* be identified as having an inconvenient
> viewpoint...
you can probably also simply compare the usernames with the search term
blacklist that the government provides you...
