Google China hackers stole source code

Does anyone else feel that this article is both poorly written and furthermore just bad reporting? I was curious about the original source, which I tracked down to a blog post by George Kurtz and several links on it [1].

It seems to only claim that source control services are a good target and are frequently configured with no security (which is A Bad Thing), but does not blame Perforce as an attack vector. The article implies, however, that Perforce was used as an attack vector which does not appear to be the case. Of course, it is very hard to discern what the article actually says when they spend one sentence per idea, with no further explanation or investigation.

[1]: http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/source-code-repositories-target...

Stuff like this is why it's important for all developers to study computer security. It is possible to create computer systems such that malicious users are unlikely to break into them, even if they have the entire system's source code. For example, look at heavily used open source software.

It seems like a lot of developers write closed source, commercial systems with the assumption that malicious users will never see it.

While reading that, for a moment I though that Google were using McAfee security and seriously pondered the wisdom in using their services anymore.

It's not really stealing if Google still has the source code. Unless reading a book is now called "stealing a book".

Why is Google storing source code on 3rd party servers?!