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Whose the hacker again?
"Leaks depict hacking by a China threatened by Internet; Cyberattacks on US targets widespread" by James Glanz and John Markoff, New York Times / December 5, 2010
NEW YORK — As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: They were Googling themselves....
I never Google myself.
Why would I? I know who I am.
Related: Web a Weapon in Chinese Cold War
Google on the front lines, 'eh?
That cable from American diplomats was one of many made public by WikiLeaks that portray China’s leadership as nearly obsessed with the threat posed by the Internet to their grip on power — and, the reverse, by the opportunities it offered them, through hacking, to obtain secrets stored in computers of its rivals, especially the United States.
Then I can assume the FREE-SPEECH, FREEDOM-LOVING U.S. WILL NEVER SHUT DOWN the Internet, right?
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Wrong!
Extensive Chinese hacking operations, including one leveled at Google Inc., are a central theme in the cables....
CUI BONO?
Meanwhile, the online payment service provider PayPal has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations, serving another blow to the organization as it struggled to keep its website accessible after an American company stopped directing traffic to it....
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Also see: China's Computer Warfare Against AmeriKa
Wikileaks: CoIntelPro Psyop
Most of the world has figured that out by now.
