I woke up today to realize that GNUCITIZEN’s web server is bombarded with requests. Good that we are running from a scalable infrastructure. The reason for the storm was a recent disclosure of apparently new Gmail bug similar to the one which I partially and than fully disclosed here, of course after working with the vendor to resolve the problem, which is always the right thing to do.
ReadWriteWeb has a time line on the history of this attack here. Very nice summary I must say. [...]
Alright. If you have been following the Full-disclosure mailing list, you have probably stumbled across several emails which claim that one of my GMail accounts have been compromised. That is right. It did happen but I am not that surprised since I’ve been expecting it after being unsuccessfully attacked for so many times during the last 3 years. It is interesting to me that shady characters from across the Net see me as a quite important person although I would say otherwise. [...]
