The attack was conducted by secret M$ agents that were activated to divert attention from M$ woes.
The only thing that's rely new for me is that that M$ was acting on Chinese government orders.
Google investigates China insiders over attacks
Summary
Google is investigating whether employees in its China office were involved in the attacks on its network that led to theft of intellectual property, according to sources.
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Google is investigating whether employees in its China office were involved in the attacks on its network that led to theft of intellectual property, according to CNET sources.
Sources familiar with the investigation told CNET News last week that Google was looking into whether insiders at the company were involved in the attacks, but additional details were not known at the time.
Special Report: China attacks Google
Employees in the Google China office were put on leave and others were transferred, Reuters reported on Monday, citing local media reports and unnamed sources. Employees in the office were temporarily cut off from the network so Google could run tests and scans to ensure that the network was secure, sources familiar with the investigation told CNET.
For more on this story, read "Google China insiders may have helped with attack" on CNET News.
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Linux Geek19th Jan 2010 -
huh? M$??
Micro$oft is not even mentioned in the story. Where are you coming up with your "I knew it!"?
When I was in the US Air Force my area of specialty was China. Let me tell you if you did not know, the Red Army influences EVERYTHING in that country. So it would not take much pressure from them to influence Google's local employees.
Terry Thomas
Atlanta, Georgia USA
AtlantaTerry22nd Jan 2010 -
RE: Google investigates China insiders over attacks
It was Microsoft China that showed the hackers the info about the vulnerability in the first place
dm_invent19th Jan 2010 -
Readers have no way of knowing whether this story is real.
This troubles me. I'm not saying that you haven't done your journalism, but a story like this, with all the speculation, could be written without any research whatsoever: you could just make it up. No one would object that it wasn't good enough.
...Except me, I suppose. But I'm just in an odd mood just now.
Robert Carnegie 200919th Jan 2010 -
RE: Google investigates China insiders over attacks
Amazing insight, MS assisting hackers to bring MS competitors on their knees?
Martmarty20th Jan 2010 -
Short sighted
If you truly believe that Google would not investigate if it
was an inside job, I am glad that you are not in charge of
my security. Even a child would be able to draw its
conclusions after Google gave all of its staff a few days off.
If you ever lived in China you would know that Chinese
children are thought to stand up for the country and do
whatever was necessary when the leadership called upon
them. Very few are willing to resist enormous pressure
from the Central Committee.
In China the police the courts and everyone else are told to
do. A charge of subversion is easily fabricated. I am
surprised at all that Google is doing their critical
operations from inside China and not from Hong Kong or
even Singapore.
rhon@...20th Jan 2010 -
RE: Google investigates China insiders over attacks
In some respects - and only in some - US business is very blue-eyed. Where it better would be suspicious, they believe in any fairytale, and where there is really nothing it sees a black mask behind every bush. China has never conceiled its lust to copy anything and was never hiding its disrespect for western common business practises. The dilemma is not a fault of China, it is a fault of the directors of Google, who definitely should have known better.
wolflenz23rd Jan 2010
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