[dundee] Google threatens to pull out of China due to government attacks

[gordon dunlop]

2010/1/13 Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com>

> 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/
>
>
  They appear to be using an exploit in Internet Explorer to mount these
attacks


http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/354832/internet-explorer-flaw-led-to-google-china-attacks

 Gordon

Good to see Google taking a stand.
>
> R.
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