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Tags: China, Circumvention, Google, Internet Surveillance, Malware.
Google has just announced that there were successful attacks against their
infrastructure resulting in the theft of intellectual property. Google
traced the attacks to China and although the attribution regarding the
Chinese government is unclear, Google also discovered that the attackers
also attempted to compromise the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights
activists.
But the most interesting result was due to the combination of attacks,
surveillance and censorship Google has decided to reassess their
operations in China:
