By Howie Dew Smallbottom
WASHINGTON (Politically Illustrated) – The New York Times is reporting further details on the ongoing spat between Google and China which lead Google to exit mainland China.
The New York Times is reporting China stole Google’s password system that allows access to users accounts including access to all of the company’s web services, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The program is named Gaia after the Greek goddess of the earth and allows users to sign into services only once to operate all of Google’s web service offerings.
“If you can get to the software repository where the bugs are housed before they are patched, that’s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” George Kantz told The New York Times, who is chief technology officer for McAfee Inc.
The security breach occurred after China sent a Google employee an instant message with a link, once the employee clicked the link, the employee was referred to a malicious website which allowed China to gain access to a software repository system used by Google’s development team.
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