[dundee] Google threatens to pull out of China due to government attacks
Rick Moynihan
rick.moynihan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 11:38:52 UTC 2010
This seems like a big deal:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
Essentially Google are standing up to the Chinese government who are
repeatedly and systematically attacking their infrastructure... It
looks like the Chinese government are doing this to get information on
Chinese human rights activists.... Though there's doubtless lots of
corporate espionage going on.
Here's an analysis by Northrop Grumman on how the Chinese Government
organise their hacking attempts:
http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/china-cyberwar/
Good to see Google taking a stand.
R.
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