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Microsoft Outlook Users In China Hit With MITM Attack

Posted by samzenpus on from the right-back-at-you dept.

DavidGilbert99 writes A month after it blocked Google's Gmail, the Chinese government now stands accused of hacking Microsoft's Outlook email service, carrying out man-in-the-middle attack to snoop on private conversations. From ZDNet: " On Monday, online censorship watchdog Greatfire.org said the organization received reports that Outlook was subject to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack in China....After testing, Greatfire says that IMAP and SMTP for Outlook were under a MITM attack, while the email service's web interfaces were not affected.

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  1. Imagine that. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A state spying on it's own citizens... shameful. I'd be outraged, unless of course they said it was part of the war on terror, or whatever China's current favorite boogeyman is.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
    1. Re:Imagine that. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Insightful

      The Chinese Communist government has been at war with its own citizens since 1949. Nothing new here. There's Xinjiang separatists, but those are no big potatoes. China doesn't need an excuse, they govern by executive order. The biggest threat to the government is from its own people, so one can see why they would spy in this way.

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      Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  2. Merely beta testing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...for Cameron's plans for the West.

    Capitalism with a Chinese face.

  3. Ah the good ol' days by trippin_efnet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remember when we could look at these stories and say things like "Aww, those poor Chinese. Their government is awful, shady, intrusive, abusive, etc.." Now the U.S. government makes the Chinese government look good by comparison. -t