Google vs. China

January 19th, 2010 admin

I’m not sure what I can add to this: politically motivated attacks against Gmail from China. I’ve previously written about hacking from China. Shishir Nagaraja and Ross Anderson wrote a report specifically describing how the Chinese have been hacking groups that are politically opposed to them. I’ve previously written about censorship, Chinese and otherwise. I’ve previously written about broad government…


Originally posted on Schneier

 
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