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Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen

Posted by kdawson on from the crown-jewels dept.

Aardvark writes "More details are coming out about the extent of the break-in at Google a few months ago. The NY Times is reporting that one of the things stolen was the source code to Google's single sign-on authentication system, called Gaia. Though Google is making changes to the system, the theft raises the possibility that attackers could analyze the code to find new exploits to take advantage of in the future. No wonder that Eric Schmidt recently said they've become paranoid about security."

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  1. Sauce? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    tar.gz or it didn't happen

    1. Re:Sauce? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      CAPTAIN PLANET!

      Sorry kid, you got AIDS.

      Yeah, from a blood transfusion... I guess you could call it that.

      You have the superpower of being able to kill people painfully long after you are dead.

      Now go to that evil petrol sheik's room and do your job! Death to polluters!

  2. More Eyes by Daengbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    More eyes make the bugs shallow, right? ;)

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    Put identity in the browser.
    1. Re:More Eyes by Soilworker · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's why you need to look at it from a 45 degree angle.

    2. Re:More Eyes by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

      But then the bugs will appear to be in IE8.

  3. Cloud security? by HockeyPuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought the cloud was secure?

    1. Re:Cloud security? by siddesu · · Score: 3, Funny

      the cloud is secure. it is the dev workstations that are in danger :)

  4. Re:so? by 3p1ph4ny · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.slashcode.com/

  5. Thank goodness by NEDHead · · Score: 2, Funny

    This explains all those sexy emails my girlfriend has been getting from all kinds of different guys in her gmail account

  6. Re:Don't change it, release it by noidentity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously, the bad guys already have it, so enlist the help of the security community to improve it.

    The code was stolen, so they're going to have to rewrite it from scratch. You'd think Google would have had a backup somewhere, but maybe they stole that too.