阿灵顿说：“几年前，在我写了一篇关于谷歌的大文章之后，我很确定谷歌看了我的邮箱。”
我的文章发表之后过了几个星期，我的内线（一名谷歌员工）在一个聚会上找我说话。这个人当时醉醺醺的，跟我说谷歌问他/她（我不想透露性别）是不是消息源。我的内线否认了，但是谷歌拿出一封邮件说他/她就是内线。
我的内线和我通讯时没有使用Gmail，所以谷歌获得这份邮件只可能是看了我的Gmail邮箱。
在那之后我的内线就被谷歌解雇了。
我当时吓坏了，但是我什么没有说，因为不希望大家害怕给TechCrunch提供信息。但之后我就非常小心，与消息源交流时不适用涉事公司的邮件服务。
这种事情完全是轶事，也无法查证，而且麦克·阿灵顿也不太值得信任。但这也许是阿灵顿第一次写一些有意义的东西。
译者：林杉
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Michael Arrington: "Google Spied on My Gmail"
This week, we learned Microsoft has been able to read anyone"s Hotmail inbox, if it so pleases. But what about Google? According to TechCrunch founder and friendly VC giant Mike Arrington, his Gmail account was rifled through just the same.
"A few years ago," Arrington recounts, "I"m nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google."
A couple of weeks after the story broke my source, a Google employee, approached me at a party in person in a very inebriated state and said that they (I"m being gender neutral here) had been asked by Google if they were the source. The source denied it, but was then shown an email that proved that they were the source.
The source had corresponded with me from a non Google email account, so the only way Google saw it was by accessing my Gmail account.
A little while after that my source was no longer employed by Google.
I certainly freaked out when this happened, but I never said anything about it because I didn"t want people to be afraid to share information with TechCrunch. But I became much more careful to make sure that communications with sources never occurred over services owned by the companies involved in the story.
This is a completely anecdotal, unverifiable report from a man of completely questionable character. But it"s probably the first thing Arrington"s ever penned that makes nothing but sense. (来源：新华国际) 相关阅读