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New Info from CRU Hacking Investigation

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MadJadBad2/15/2010 11:17:52 am PST

re: #636 Charles

I’m not hanging on to any delusions. I have no pre-conceived ideas or theories about this breach. I read the article to learn more about it but was a bit disappointed that an article on a blog named IT-Networks had very few technical details. It mostly speculates about the identity and motives of the hacker. It contains no information about how the hacker actually gained access. It mentions previous security problems due to misconfigured servers, but I doubt this breach was due to that because archived emails would have default file restrictions to prevent that, unless changed by admins.

The comment about “government-class skills” made me lol. Thinking about it, the author probably meant government sponsored blackhats.