Largest Firewall In China Will Protect Google
Friday, June 25th, 2010
For those thinking that Google-China war dynasty will be resolved quickly – and that with the economic problems eventually will force the two forces to ratchet down this unique cyber duel 21st century – this is a rough week for most of the awaken.
The hits of hacking kept coming from China. Google announced that China’s search services faced disruption for most of Tuesday. The company said the service had been recovered days later, but what started out which is described as a technical issue on Google’s Great Firewall and then turned into another example of direct interference by the Chinese authorities with itchy trigger fingers at “them filter” button.
Google on Wednesday also showed other mysterious cyber attack in Asia, which is not directed at it but at the Chinese activists protesting a controversial bauxite mining sites in Vietnam – a project that is very important to Beijing and one point for Vietnam’s increasingly ill. Mal-ware hidden in the Vietnamese language software, according to Google and McAfee, and malicious code is activated eavesdropping activist email account.
Why does Google help publicize this attack?
“On a larger scale, we feel that the international community needs to take cyber security seriously to help maintain the free flow of opinion,” a company spokesman Neel Mehta wrote on the Google Online Security Blog.
Is the larger community also happens to Yahoo? Google’s competitor is the focus of the search- and most frightening – the hack from China.
Journalists and activists working in China can not access their Yahoo email on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Service back in the day Wednesday, but many of those affected by the disorder reported the new setting and the direction of forwarding to the account of the unknown.
A spokesman for an ethnic group that China has been accused of fomenting a plan to secede from the mainland, told Reuters that he expected most of his Yahoo account information is downloaded without his knowledge.

