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China cracks Google security: Google defies Chinese censors |
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Source: Tech Republic - Posted by Anthony Pell
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A recent policy conflict between Google and the Chinese government is stirring up a lot of dust and creating a lot of confusion.
Google recently announced A new approach to China in the Official Google Blog. The 12 January 2010 announcement makes allegations of security cracking by agents of the Chinese government in an attempt to gain access to dissidents’ emails:
Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
The announcement also makes it clear that Google’s official policy for China has been pushed by this event in the direction of stronger support for free speech in the country, effectively turning Google itself into a dissident:
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are 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. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
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