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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."
Don't you know that you should do your wiretapping directly at the ISP level, like real Americans?
China is a totalitarian state. Has been since 1949. What free trade has done is to make it a rich totalitarian state instead of a poor one. I never understood the argument that capitalism would lead to anything like democracy. Democracy [usually] leads to at least some level of capitalist/free-enterprise economy, but not the other way around.
People roll their eyes when I tell them I don't buy products made in China. I refuse to support a government with such an abusive human rights record.
It's tough at times finding a product not made in China, but I use the free market to make my point.
Some people talk the talk when it comes to making a statement. Very few actually walk the walk.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower