Kudos to Google
Google Threatening To Leave China Over Hacking, Email Leak
SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country after discovering that computers hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.
The change-of-heart announced Tuesday heralds a major shift for Google, which has repeatedly said it will obey Chinese laws that require some politically and socially sensitive issues to be blocked from search results that are available in other countries.
Google disclosed in a blog post 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.</em>
Finally. Gee Google, you surprised that a regime that routinely tramples the civil and human rights of its citizens (actions that you assisted with in censoring search results for years at their bequest) turned its hackers on you?
Silly Google, but glad to see something finally stops you from abetting totalitarian governments.
