Chinese Paper Warns Google May Pay Price For Hacking Claims

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from a Reuters report: "Google has become a 'political tool' vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the US internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business. The tough warning appeared in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, indicating that political tensions between the United States and China over Internet security could linger. Last week, Google said it had broken up an effort to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including US government officials, Chinese human rights advocates and journalists. It said the attacks appeared to come from China."

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Re:Oh puh-leeze

[Hatta]

They don't care if anyone outside China believes it. They are building pretext to block Google entirely.

Chinese govt just implicated itself

[losttoy]

Read Google's blog post here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ensuring-your-information-is-safe.html

Nowhere do they point fingers at the Chinese government. They merely pointed out source of the attack was based in a certain Chinese city. It is the Chinese who interpreted that as pointing at the Chinese govt. Why would the Chinese do that unless they are aware of the attack being carried out by their army/govt. They could've just said they will investigate further the origin and trace the attackers. No, instead they went into this defensive spin. Shows the Chinese govt is guilty (al though Google didn't accuse them).

#Lame #Fail.

It's the United States' Internet - deroute .cn

[TwineLogic]

We built it, and among its many purposes were to further the freedoms of the United States of America.

To what ends are China using the Internet we built? Attacking the email accounts of our senior government officials? Sabotaging the power grid? Probing the network of Lockheed Martin?

How do Chinese packets get to the US, and why should they continue to reach us? It is time -- past time -- that the US cut off all Internet routing from China, and establishes treaties with China's neighbors prohibiting them from routing Chinese packets to the US.

Re:It's the United States' Internet - deroute .cn

[Bloodwine77]

I would never punish the people of China for the actions of their government.

If we cut them off from the internet, we only hurt the regular Chinese civilian who will find themselves cut off from outside information and opposing points of view.

Re:Oh puh-leeze

[Dutchmaan]

I'm sorry but China is shady as hell... and no one is claiming that X country is innocent, but come on... China has been at the forefront and behind the scenes of a great number of cyber attacks lately. The words "I think he doth protest too much" comes to mind.