Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Burian, Matthew J. <mjb () burianit com>
wrote:

> Google has posted some more information regarding this topic to their own
> blog:

> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

If you'll notice, I posted that link below.

Here's another related to to the same issue:

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/adobe_investigates_corporate_n
.html

- - ferg

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
> wrote:
> >

> > 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.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > More:
> >
> > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/12/financial/f1
> > 503 41S73.DTL
> >
> > - - ferg
> >
> > [1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

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