E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via SFGate.com (AP).

[snip]

Google Inc. said Tuesday it might end its operations in China after it
discovered that the e-mail accounts of human rights activists had been
breached.

The company disclosed in a blog post [1] that it had detected a "highly
sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure
originating from China." Further investigation revealed that "a primary
goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human
rights activists," Google said in the post written by Chief Legal Officer
David Drummond.

Google did not specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company
added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on
its Chinese search engine, as the government requires. Google says the
decision could force it to shut down its Chinese site and its offices in
the country.

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More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/12/financial/f1503
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- - ferg

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html


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