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Re: [News] Microsoft Windows Botnets Take Baidu Offline, Google Under Attack in China

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____/ JeffM on Wednesday 13 Jan 2010 23:12 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>|a primary goal of the attackers was accessing
>>|the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
>>
> There was a good discussion of this topic on Slashdot.
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/12/2329231&threshold=5#30745546
> 
> It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
> This may be the first ripple in a sea change
> where USA corporations exit that country.
> 
> Will Google publicly shread its "Don't Be Evil" sign
> and remain in that fully-corrupted market?
> ...or will they recognize that the Red Chinese gov't
> has their fingers in every business there
> and that The Party can change the rules at will
> so that you can't win and just look like a dupe?
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/12/2329231&threshold=5#30745690
> 
> ...and will Google do this so that it will be obvious
> that the PRC gov't is the bad guy?
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/12/2329231&threshold=5#30744878

See my post from 10 minutes ago. Google might be pulling a stunt here.

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