Tag: great firewall of china

China partially blocks Google search results from Hong Kong, the saga continues

Posted by Nexus – 23/03/2010

[via engadget.com]

You didn’t think that just because Google started redirecting its Google.cn domain to its Hong Kong site, we were coming to a neat compromise to the big brouhaha between the search giant and China, did you? Oh no, brother, this thing is far from over.

China has now responded by whipping its state computers into a filtering frenzy, blocking and censoring out content it considers objectionable from Google’s HK-based search results. Adding to its show of strength, it’s expected the Chinese government’s influence will also result in China Mobile canceling a deal to have Google as its default search provider on mobile handsets.

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Was the Cyber Attack on Google an Inside Job?

Posted by Nexus – 18/01/2010

[via mashable.com]

A couple of days ago, Google announced a plan to stop censoring the Chinese version of their search engine, threatening to pull out from the Chinese market altogether. One of the main reason behind this decision was a sophisticated hacker attack on Google which came, Google claims, directly from China.

The attack, which used a flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and a trojan named Hydraq is considered sophisticated not only because of the attackers’ level of technical expertise, but also because the attackers knew exactly who to attack. Now, Reuters’ source claims that the hackers have had help from Google itself.

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