Journalists' Yahoo E-Mail Accounts Compromised In China

andy1307 writes "According to this article in the New York Times, 'In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of at least a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders. The infiltrations, which involved Yahoo e-mail accounts, appeared to be aimed at people who write about China and Taiwan, rendering their accounts inaccessible, according to those who were affected. In the case of this reporter, hackers altered e-mail settings so that all correspondence was surreptitiously forwarded to another e-mail address. ... The victims of the most recent intrusions included a law professor in the United States, an analyst who writes about China's security apparatus and several print journalists based in Beijing and Taipei, the capital of Taiwan."

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Yahoo, MS is poison

[AHuxley]

With reports like "Yahoo 'helped jail China writer'" in 2005 ... would most people with any public or private interest in China stay with Yahoo's products in any form after its "complicity" over the past years?
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