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It sounds like there is a lot more information that has not been disclosed yet. It almost sounds like the Chinese government is somehow implicated in the attack, which would sound incredible if it didn't include the personal information of dissidents.

I will be attending a financial conference in Hong Kong this month. Just last week I asked a Japanese government executive negotiating with China is it really safe to invest there? As I am considering now.

You can be sure this topic will be one of the top issues discussed. It is very unfortunate indeed and is bound to involve disclosures from other companies in China as well, especially once they investigate the attacks on their own infrastructure.

Personally I hope that information about the vulnerabilities exploited will be shared so that other companies can patch their systems too.
This is quite a chilling incident and ratchets up the perceived risk of investment in China.

Incidentally I found something about Google leaving Japan in a blog post linked from the Google China homepage. Chinese Google Translate to English.

There ARE numerous evidences that showed the Google Pinyin IME input method (a.k.a. Google Pinyin) indeed copied the data libriary of Sogou Pinyin IME input method's (a.k.a Sogou Pinyin). Developers of the Sogou pinyin created some easter eggs in their products (e.g. all the names of the Sogou develpement team members, a few spelling typos), Programmers of Google China copied all these easter eggs and typos verbatium to their Google Pinyin product verbatim.

Sohu.com (NASDAQ: SOHU), the owner of the Sogou Pinyin, accused Google China's plagiarism behavior in their official announcement today (in Chinese), asking Google to stop the copyright infrigment, apologize in public media to SOHU.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-04-08/17041454175.s html

The PR officer of Google China (NASDAQ: GOOG) also released an official response a few hours later today (in Chinese).

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-04-08/18351454194.s html

Google China's official response acknowledged that "the Google Pinyin IME Input method included some data not created by Google itself, and those data have been removed in the latest update". Google China's offical announcement still didn't acknowledge the original data creator, didn't appologize for their copyright infrigement either. Accodring to SOHU, there are still undisclosed "easter eggs" created by Sogou Pinyin programmers even in the latest update of Google Pinyin.

FYI: Here are the screen shots of a few easter eggs and typos in Sogou Pinyin, which are found in Google Pinyin verbatium.

http://www.donews.com/Content/200704/69ce12fbc8264 b76b78f44791dad8379.shtm

http://www.donews.com/Content/200704/69ce12fbc8264 b76b78f44791dad8379.shtm

There ARE numerous evidences that showed the Google Pinyin IME input method (a.k.a. Google Pinyin) indeed copied the data libriary of Sogou Pinyin IME input method's (a.k.a Sogou Pinyin). Developers of the Sogou pinyin created some easter eggs in their products (e.g. all the names of the Sogou develpement team members, a few spelling typos), Programmers of Google China copied all these easter eggs and typos verbatium to their Google Pinyin product verbatim.

Sohu.com (NASDAQ: SOHU), the owner of the Sogou Pinyin, accused Google China's plagiarism behavior in their official announcement today (in Chinese), asking Google to stop the copyright infrigment, apologize in public media to SOHU.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-04-08/17041454175.s html

The PR officer of Google China (NASDAQ: GOOG) also released an official response a few hours later today (in Chinese).

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-04-08/18351454194.s html

Google China's official response acknowledged that "the Google Pinyin IME Input method included some data not created by Google itself, and those data have been removed in the latest update". Google China's offical announcement still didn't acknowledge the original data creator, didn't appologize for their copyright infrigement either. Accodring to SOHU, there are still undisclosed "easter eggs" created by Sogou Pinyin programmers even in the latest update of Google Pinyin.

FYI: Here are the screen shots of a few easter eggs and typos in Sogou Pinyin, which are found in Google Pinyin verbatium.

http://www.donews.com/Content/200704/69ce12fbc8264 b76b78f44791dad8379.shtm

http://www.donews.com/Content/200704/69ce12fbc8264 b76b78f44791dad8379.shtm

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