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Google's internal spy system was Chinese hacker target (2010)
- goggles99 13y agoWow, who would have ever guessed this??? (Well, my 9 year old son for one.)
- cnvogel 13y agoWell, of course it was unexpected. There was hardly any documented precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2%80%932005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...
- cclinus123 13y agoThis article was 2 year ago. I guess the poster of this thread aims to compare this article blaming China with our great peace loving US government when Snowden event is still hot.
- magicalist 13y agoThis is 3.5-year-old random-guy-on-zdnet commentary on a single quote from an unnamed source taken from this article[1], and the quote doesn't remotely support the conclusions he makes. Here is a much more recent report on what likely actually went down: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/chinese-hackers-who-breached-google-reportedly-targeted-classified-data/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/chinese-hackers-who-... tl;dr: it's speculated that they were interested in who the US government was watching as any overlap with their own operatives meant that they were likely compromised. [1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9144221/Google_attack_part_of_widespread_spying_effort http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9144221/Google_attack...?