Is it possible to forge a Gmail chat log? [repost]

Started by Ganner Rhysode1 pages

Is it possible to forge a Gmail chat log? [repost]

I posted this in "off topic" simply because it gets more traffic and I would get more varied responses, I'm posting HERE because you guys are more likely to know what you're talking about.

Is there ANY way for that conversation to get there without me having actually talked to that person, other than having two accounts and having a conversation with myself?

That is, is it possible for a Gmail chatlog to be faked, forged, and so on, yet still placed in the Gmail database? I'm positive it's not, but I would like some support on this.

SITUATION: Basically...

I have a conversation with person A on Gmail chat. Person A says said conversation NEVER happened, even though he knows it did. I say I have chatlogs, and that they're right there in the Gmail database, and he says I must have found some way to hack in or something and implant it there.

Person A is also a huge ****ing douchebag, by the way.

This should go in the computer help forum; this forum is for computer games and video games.

Moving.

"No hacker since Google's gone public has EVER hacked Google's databases. To fake a log, you would have had to break all their encryptions, something no expert hacker has done but many have tried. You'd have to implant a new chat log in the CORRECT server, without ANY Google personnel ever seeing it (which they would), then you'd have to change the date to match the time, and that's not as easy as changing numbers due to time synchonization."

This sounds about like what I was thinking of. How accurate/factual/etc. would this be?

No idea man, but best not make too bold a claim without knowing the facts. I can understand that you want to defend yourself but lying about it won't help you. Plus you'll have stooped to his level.

Uh, what? I'm not making a "bold claim." o_O That thing about not being able to hack them/etc. didn't come from me, and it sounds pretty right to me, I'm just trying to check. I'm not lying about anything.

Or did you mean something else?

They don’t have to hack Google to spoof your account if someone even wanted to do it, they can hack your computer which would be much easier or intercept your sending to Google but the likely hood that someone wants to spend this much time on you is very slim.

Originally posted by ThePittman
The likely hood that someone wants to spend this much time on you is very slim.

Originally posted by Ganner Rhysode
Uh, what? I'm not making a "bold claim." o_O That thing about not being able to hack them/etc. didn't come from me, and it sounds pretty right to me, I'm just trying to check. I'm not lying about anything.

Or did you mean something else?


Thought it came from you, sorry for that. Still without any real evidence it's quite hard to believe it.