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Google Investigating Chinese Employees
BluePeppers writes "The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating its staff about The Incident. '"We're not commenting on rumor and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details," a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorized access to a computer. The analysts said the sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself.'"
I didn't know they could go back in time and undo the incident. Very impressive!
Why should Google be surprised. The funny thing is that all Google will be able to do is fire that person. And then they will get to take a job with a Baidu (or may already be working for them).
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
After the investigation, of course they will invite every Google China employee to join them in the USA for a presentation of the results...!
Actually, that's the whole investigation. People who have "family obligations" or who are "afraid of airplanes" are the ones to look at!
His grammar is down the lieu.
Irregardless of the actual story content, I find the poster's use of "in lieu" to be the penultimate atrocity vis-a-vis the English language.
Even as you read this, your pants are strangling your loins! Aaa!
I think they meant "in light of" (as in, in response to). "In lieu of", as you know, means essentially "instead of", and would not make sense in this context. So, you are correct. I just hope you don't get modded down as "grammar police".
Modding "-1, Troll" is not a proper response if you disagree with me. Try reason.
This is Slashdot. Every summary must have at least one grammatical error.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
I bet it was your run of the mill social engineering. Someone on the attacking side befriended someone on the inside and either coaxed the information out, or just waited until they mentioned it in passing. Once they knew who to target, they could then pump this employee to see if the attack was having any effect, from the perspective of an insider.
It could be a Facebook friend, it could be a normal face-to-face friend, or it might be a "swallow". Governments certainly use this method of social engineering, but I would be quite surprised if companies do not do it as well.
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How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
This is Slashdot. Every summary must have at least one grammatical error.
And "investigating it's staff" wasn't good enough?
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
the ultimate atrocity is the poster's use of "it's"?
... is In Lieu, you insensitive clods!
Somewhere in Mountain View, servers are now analyzing all activity of Google's employees in China. And their friend. And their friend's friends. And the people they email. And everyone who got in range of a Google security camera. And all the their friends. And the people they email.
Its the kind of bad grammer we sea alot of on slashdot. Blame there editers.
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
google googles you!
Espionage is a BIG risk in all Overseas Outsourcing. The overseas employees (or foreigners brought in on L-1 or H-1b visas) are ultimately loyal to their home country. If their country orders them to spy, turn over Intellectual Property, etc., don't be surprised! Google is not the big risk. Microsoft, for example, has a big tech center in China. One must wonder what sorts of spying, back doors, trojans, are being planted in Windows!
but we we have computers
Giggle... you said "we we"...
Yep.
Right, I get hit by my own irony stick. I deserved that. "we we" indeed.
you should read everything on the internet as if it had "but I'm probably talking out of my ass" appended to it.
Chinese companies copied part for part GM cars and as far as I know, nothing came of it. You could literally take the door off the Chevy and put a door from the Chinese car company on it. We don't impose any trade sanctions, we just keep buying their stuff.
I'd find the link but I don't have time.
Hopefully this google flap will get people to pay attention to how they are catching up.
A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorized access to a computer.
Yes thanks! This is definitely news to the average /. reader. I never knew that!
Hate to say this...as it does sound racist, but I know for a fact that most of the chinese employees within a company that deals with
china, will side to help the chinese side of the deal rather then their own company that is dealing with china, also even went so far as to give out confidential info and deal breaking intel to manufacturers so as to be able to charge top dollar when they could, based on types of situations that came up.
For me, it might sound racist, but I truly believe that they have been brainwashed to really stand by their country, even when they are of different citizenship, and even live abroad...they will still report back to the motherland to help in anyway they can.
Is this wrong, the jews have been doing this for eons, so I guess not really, as it would be hypocritical to say this, but
I do believe that a religion and way of life, is much different then a country's dictator's point of view of what life should be.
I know i might get spammed with a lot of comments on my view points, but I have to say, we did this to ourselves.
If we allow muslems to come into our country and force us to change our country's ways to allow them to continue living the way they lived back home, then why did they leave int he first place. If you want to join the RCMP and then tell them that they are not allowed to ask you to remove your turban to put on the proper RCMP uniform, you should understand that this is part of the RCMP religion, to wear the RCMP hat.
As for chinese, if they come into the country and work for a canadian/amercian country, why would they try to still make china the
more profitable partner in the deal....they left that country, for what ever reason...seems like they are almost doing this on purpose as if told to do so by the dictator himself...?
Well, you know how well informed those English majors are about engineering topics, right? How could it be any other way with an engineer's usage of the language?
Apparently something so significant happened that people can just call it "The Incident" and expect others to know about it. Yet I've never heard of anything happening to Google, or originating from Google significant enough and shocking enough to be titled "The Incident". (The worst I've heard is about their camera cars going up the occasional private road).
Seriously?! You've been posting regularly on /. for this last week yet you somehow managed to miss nine of the most commented on stories?! Well, here they are in chronological order:
Google Hacked, may pull out of China
Google.cn has already lifted censorship
Google.cn attack part of broad spying effort
China emphasizes law as Google defies censorship
Google attackers identified as Chinese government
IE 0-day flaw used in Chinese attack
Code used to attack Google now public
German government advises public to stop using IE
Another attack, on law firm suing China
This is also all over the mainstream and business news (although, like all other news stories, it's secondary to the Haiti coverage).
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
C'mon, go easy - I wouldn't call failing to capitalize IT a grammatical error!
If Google finds anything, this could have serious reprecussions for foreign companies hiring in China and Chinese students seeking green cards/employment in the US, especially in high-tech areas. Does anyone else think that mandatory background checks might be put in place to screen candidates, beyond simply assessing technical skills?
If so, it's a good time to be Indian or Taiwanese/Korean, if you're competing with Chinese candidates.
Though I do hope if this doesn't result in hiring discrimination against Chinese candidates; most of them are bright cookies, and there may come a day when US tech companies need them more than they need us.