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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."
We are now see their true colours.
They are like evil villains you see in the movies but for real.
We the world just made them into a very dangerous Superpower.
At least the US hasn't ran over it's own students with tanks yet.
Oh don't point out that that could happen, otherwise you get modded as a troll.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
11 characters, 44 is crazy to me.
Make it a phrase, much easier to get large number of characters that way, although it does lower the entropy.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Don't worry, China isn't a superpower by any stretch of the imagination. It's still a third world country with slightly higher industrial output per capita than other third world countries. If push comes to shove, the stinking chinks will be shown their true place in the pecking order, rest assured.
The Middle East and South America beg to differ. I'm from the US btw. I'm embarassed by what they do and have done.
Admittedly the reprehensible stuff is usually because of oil. In general it seems like in the UN security council it's always Russia and China who are on the side of the despots.