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I find the fact that Adobe got hacked by a pdf vulnerability kinda funny.

Specifically, a 0-day exploit in the Adobe Reader software which Adobe knew about and refused to fix for months (since it would break their upgrade schedule).

They're denying it though, blaming it on IE only:

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/no_evidence_to_...

It's not just them denying it, but McAffee as well: http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-“aurora”-hit-google-o...

Considering the original report was unsourced, I'm inclined to believe them

What about inside job?

most companies have offices in india, china. And even risking a moral point here, all companies have chinese employees.

Hell, when I worked for a shady company here [regret] most employees used to sell the email database.

what about the oposite? use employees to insert vulnerabilities instead of selling data.

Will anyone run `cvs blame` on the IE4 source code?

And all companies have employees who like money. Not that I have studied this in any detail, but my recollection of the cold war is that most spies turned out to be corrupt US (or UK, etc) nationals, not russian employees.

true. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/1623248/Google-Inves...

here's the follow up on that line of thought.

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