http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
This is big news. Google will likely shutdown operations in China due to highly sophisticated and targeted cyberattacks resulting in the theft of some Google IP and:
“we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.”
Google has reported it to the relevant authorities, one of them being the state department:
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135105.htm
On a related note, if you search “google.blogspot.com” (that’s the official google blog) in any chinese search engine, you won’t get any result, and you may not be able to search for while after that.
Go to baidu.com and search “google.com” or “blogspot.com” and you’ll get results for both. But search ”google.blogspot.com” and see what happens.
Here is more information about the attack, from cybersecurity firm F-Secure:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001854.html
I’m very interested in seeing the effect this will have on the democratization of China, given that Internet freedom has become so intertwined with human freedom.
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