Google v China

January 12th, 2010 admin

It’s been a few months since I mentioned China in a blog post, but this one can’t be ignored. Thanks to SW for passing me this one: Google Blog: A New Approach to China In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google… First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses–including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors–have been similarly targeted… These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude …


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