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Google threatens to leave China after massive cyberattacks
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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:53:13 -0600 (CST)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9144139/Google_threatens_to_leave_China_after_massive_cyberattacks?taxonomyId=17 By Gregg Keizer Computerworld January 12, 2010 Google today said that a "highly sophisticated and targeted" attack against its network last month originated in China, and tried to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. In a blog post Tuesday, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said that attacks have forced the company to "review the feasibility of our business operations in China." Google, continued Drummond, is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all." The end result of those discussions, said Drummond, may be that Google shuts down its search engine and close its offices in the People's Republic of China. "This is a bold and a very difficult move on [Google's] part," said Leslie Harris, the president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a Washington, D.C.-based civil liberties group. "But with the revelations that there have been major cyber attacks aimed at human rights activists, both in China and in the West, it's hard to see how Google could have remained silent." [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org
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