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Computer attacks originating in China infiltrated the email accounts of US government officials, military personnel and Chinese political activists, according to Google.
Google traced the “spear phishing” emails to Shandong Province in central China.
The province was also the origin of a cyber attack on Google’s computer systems in 2009 - an assault that soured the company’s relations with the Chinese government, and prompted Google to move its Chinese-language site to Hong Kong.
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Originally posted by thoughtsfull
The talking heads on Sky news keep repeating the line of attributed to a pentagon spokesperson that "If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks... what with Libya this seems to be a direct and real threat.. the bias seems to scream "China did it" *again* which is a rather worrying trend.
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
reply to post by purplemer
I agree.. but I do feel they are going out of their way right now to lay foundations and put thoughts in peoples mind that China is a threat which is not good.. But who really knows what is in their dastardly minds.
Although I think we are in the midst of a technological war ( as well as an economic one) I think any major cyber attack aimed at taking out the war machine might end up putting us (the human race) in a more unpleasant situation that we are already in as I would expect the parts that are out of that loop are the nuclear attack options *shudder*
I agree. I think the reason the US is making threats is so China will do more pursue its own hackers, so the US won't have to pursue them, that's really the end goal here, isn't it?
Originally posted by purplemer
It is all hot air talk.