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Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government
forand writes Researchers, examining the attacks on Google and over 20 other companies in December, have determined 'the source IPs and drop server of the attack correspond to a single foreign entity consisting either of agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof.'"
What if the Chinese government feared that Google was being used to engage in espionage against its interests? (either by US intelligence authorities, or other actors, like Taiwan?) Hasn't Slashdot reported for years about hardware and software backdoors being mandated by government? Is it so hard to believe that the NSA might pressure Google (or, surreptitiously alter google.cn) to engage in espionage for the United States?
The greedy company wants to put ads into your email. So they keep the mail stored in plain text.
I generally presume the NSA or google is reading any plain text anyways and dont dicuss anything I wouldnt want them to see.
Weird how far you have to scroll down to see this message, after all the conspiracy theories etc. The real question is how do they know this is the Chinese government and not a bunch of hacktivists or whatever they call themselves.
The McDonalds website was defaced a few years ago removing Taiwan being listed as a separate country from China, but does that mean Hu himself authorized the vandalism or was it some nationalist?
I think we really need more evidence than "it came from China, so it must be the Chinese government".
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Not sure why this is scored as '5, funny' and not '5, insightful'
21st-Century-Citizen
I am the last person to defend the Chinese government - but I read the article and it is not too clear on how they determined that the source is actually the Chinese government? Is it all based on the fact that the traffic is coming from certain IP addresses or is there (hopefully) more than just that to support the conclusion. Not advocating anyone trying to hack google, but if they did - pwning some unpatched pirated copy of Windows in China to use as a launching point wouldn't exactly be the worst approach to keep the heat from finding whoever was doing it.
Actually it would be a horrible approach, to fake an attack from the Chinese government's servers.
If you are inside China doing that, then you aren't risking a fine or club fed. You're risking being put to death.
If you are outside China doing that... then you are also risking your life. This isn't framing the government of Luxembourg. It's framing a non-democratic nuclear power that strongly believes in the death penalty and has a very poor human rights record. You don't frame a China or a Russia unless you don't mind getting radioactive elements in your water - or worse.
If this was a frame job, the framers should be running for their lives right about now, and probably getting their heads examined if they live long enough to worry about why they were so stupid to frame China.
So, it's possible it was a frame job - the public will probably never know. But I'd bet on the other option.
Right, that is why Google steals copyright from Chinese writers and publishers.
Eu is not a country, really! Keeping this in mind PRC is no3 or no2 in GDP.
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