Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China

Trailrunner7 writes "Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its Gmail messaging service about widespread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the Google Aurora attacks, or simply random attacks. Victims include one leading privacy activist. Warnings appeared when users logged onto Gmail, encountering a red banner reading, 'Your account was recently accessed from China,' and providing a list of IP addresses used to access the account. Users were then encouraged to change their password immediately. Based on Twitter posts, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the accounts that were accessed, though one target is a prominent privacy rights activist in the UK who has spoken out against the Chinese government's censorship of its citizens. A Google spokesman declined to comment on the latest warnings specifically. The company has been issuing similar warnings since March, when it introduced features to identify suspicious account activity."

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Re:China shouldn't have been allowed to join the W

[thoughtsatthemoment]

I think would rather live under the thumb of the US government than the PRC. From my point of view, maybe it's because I'm from a country friendly towards the US, US in general have been relatively benevolent "rulers" in comparison to what China could be capable of.

That's because you are currently under the spell of the US. If you are instead under the spell of China, believe me, China can appear much more of a benevolent ruler. Actually the Chinese government (and past dynasties) is the expert at creating a big happy family in which you would totally forget what individualism is (assuming you knew it in the first place).

Re:China shouldn't have been allowed to join the W

[cf18]

Of course you don't know how else to see China since you are rather ignorant. What else can China do when their citizen was illegally captured in Chinese territory by a far superior military alliance of Japan/US Navy force? Retreat like a coward like 1930s? Japan is the bully here, not China. And guess what forced Japan to release the the captain? Obama told Japan to stop playing game, not China.

Re:How many non-CN gmail users ever use Gmail in C

[flyingfsck]

Uh, when you travel, you only visit *one* country? It appears that you are indeed living in North America.