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- mcherm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Ah, honesty, and admission of responsibility. Such a refreshing thing. I'd trust a person who makes a mistake like this and admits it ten times more than I'd trust someone who claims never to have made such a mistake.
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Another update:
Update: We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.
Apparently nobody was pwnage enough to hack Google... meh - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I would call accidentally deleting your own corporate blog a fairly insecure event.
- treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7http://digg.com/technology/Googleblog_restored,_real_info_revealed_from_student
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Wow, I LOVE it when I'm completely correct. Nice confirmation.
("guys.. from what i understand, he didn't 'hack' the account at all.
what happened was that there was a problem with the google blog in the first place, it was giving a 404 error. apparently it had been unregistered somehow. then this guy's friend just registered on blogger with the googleblog name - that made a blank blog with the googleblog address and location - then he added a few google links and a post. if you understand what happened here, it is not interesting at all, it's just some dumb kid thinking he's smart. the part about the password was obviously a lie to his friend just because it sounded cooler than what really happened.
I was interested for a moment and dugg the story, but then i realized what really happened.. this kid just happened to be at the right place at the right time.")
Did anyone see the short article CNET posted about this? They were using this event as more evidence that google isn't secure. The reporter was completely off. sigh. - Icecream, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Few, now I can exhale, and yahoo can move on to hack askjeeves.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4And these are the people you should trust with your blogs and email. And in the future -- all of your content (as they say they eventually want your PC to become a CACHE of your original copies which will all exist on Google). Sure. Until they accidentally delete everything in your life.
- cleverboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So, the originally submitted Digg story was widely inaccurate as Trey, it seems, like to send jokes to his friends about taking out multi-billion dollar corporations. It's nice to know Google simply made a mistake and deleted its own blog, creating the problem, but its also disturbing to know that Google deleted its own blog, creating the problem.
If this "deletion" happened to some other user, and someone created a new blog in its place, I wonder how quickly such a problem might be resolved. - cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you're foolish enough to place all of your data on a hard drive that is god knows where, without backing up the important stuff so that it's readily available to you, you deserve to lose it all.
- anorris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you'd paid attention, you would know he didn't fabricate the AIM convo, some random person did.
Negative digg for you. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's just a BLOG. It was a mistake by a single employee. They restored it with no loss in data.
BTW, the guys there at google obviously noticed that they were suddenly getting a horde of traffic from digg to the blog.. they replied directly in context to the submission that was on the front page here. AND cnet did also!
Seems like the entire media world is keeping a keen eye on digg.. - treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3it didn't get old, it got "buried" because it wasn't real probably (i didn't "hack" it and that guy didn't know me)
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@cyrix - Don't back up your data because it might get deleted? The ironing is delicious!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So does this mean that if I delete my google-hosted blog and somebody else claims the name, I can come back later and claim it off them too?
- cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What are you talking about? I implied no such thing.
- antiintel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Maybe submitting stories is his job.
~A - garraeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Was the original hack "article" also pulled from digg.com? I can't seem to find it anymore...
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://digg.com/security/Google_blog_hacked_
Here's the link in case you didn't get a chance to see its brief appearance on the frontpage... - mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hilarious. Where are all the people last night who were all over this guy's balls for being such a "great hacker" and all of that.
The thread was a total cluster-eff. - zzyxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It was fun while it was happining, anyway.
- treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4haha those are my pics indeed, but not my flickr account. my flickr username is also treyjp. funny idea though :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4oooooh aaaaaah, google demostrates maximum hacking skillz by recovering lost blog. reverse pwnage!
- treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2thirty-six minutes by the count of an employee, actually.
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I wonder where the vulnerablity was?
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1dirtyfratboy I'm jealous of you, you f%$# Wan$# (there I said it).
Do you have a freaking job o9r do you just submit stories to Digg all day? - wusch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1whatever I really don't think, that some google employee really deleted their own blog, I think some other thing happened with that thing.. but "we deleted it on our own and it was our mistake" sounds a lot better in public... for me its a bit unbelieveable .. hmm.. I like google, but we should not believe everything they say..
- evisoft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Gmail alert me about google hacking :)
http://www.esanu.name/programs/googlehack.html - DEFSMAC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0it is easy for some idiot to say "that doesn't work, yeah 'cause i haxed it." but, i mean really if you are going to take all the time and effort to hax googles gibson, which i assume must be difficult. you aren't gonna deface their homepage or steal a copy of google calendar or something cool. you are gonna take down google blog which pretty much no one cares about.....riggggght. suuuuure. people make mistakes, so does google.
- jordan18r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Hey Trey...I know its not your Flickr account, I said I made one up, just in your honor!
- sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3dirtyfratboy do you believe everything you read online? Why would google accidently delete their profile unless the person who deleted the profile is a moron which then im sure google will fire them for stupidity.
- treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1yeah, it's funny :) thanks
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Check out Google Blog's response to the events:
And we're back
3/27/2006 11:15:00 PM
Posted by Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager
The Google Blog was unavailable for a short time tonight. We quickly learned from our initial investigation that there was no systemwide vulnerability for Blogger. We'll let you know more about what did happen once we finish looking into it. - jordan18r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1:-)
- jordan18r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0The article was there. Why doesnt it appear on the frontpage..did it get old so fast ?
- sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2treyjp:
I'm glad you can find humor in this because I'm starting not to. I admit when I first read that someone "hacked" Google's weblog, I was completely awed. Particularly that this is Google and they run Blogger. However, I think it's becoming pretty clear that you did nothing special. Only a "glitch" that you exploited and took no expertise whatsoever. You even sunk so low as to fabricate an AIM conversation with yourself and submit your lame story on Digg. Take pride in being a script kiddie. You keep prancing around like you're a hot shot who defeated the geniuses at Google, but you're really not and you didn't "hack" Google. - treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4That's a fake AIM conversation, of course. Why would I hack it so openly? If you'd like to talk to the real me, here I am.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1post error
- jordan18r, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1By any chance...are these pics of this TREY dude! ...I created a Flickr account for him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/treyphilips/
source: http://www.lazykarma.com/photos/index.php
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