On: The only way to get hold of a human at Google

[packetslave]

Take a look at, for example, "Abuse at Scale" from the Gmail folks at April's RIPE conference for an idea of the threat.

https://ripe64.ripe.net/presentations/48-AbuseAtScale.pdf

1 million+ bogus authentication attempts per day, 60-100k auths per second (legit and not), etc.

[joezydeco → packetslave]

That's definitely an eyeopener. Gracias.