China's Politburo Ordered Hack of Google, Wikileaks Reveals

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http://www.beet.tv/2010/11/chinas-politburo-hacked-google-wikileaks-reveals.html

The Chinese government, which has been thought for some time to have been the source of the hacking of Google's servers, leading to Google's departure from China, was directed by China's Politburo, according to diplomatic cables disclosed today by Wikileaks.

The New York Times reports the role of the Chinese government in the Google attacks.

For an overview of the the role of the Chinese government the is event, and in related activites, we spoke with Joseph Menn, a technology reporter for the Financial Times and author of the book Fatal System Error.

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NYT link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?_r=1&hp

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¶ A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said.

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1. Thank you, Wikileaks!

Nobody likes to see sausage being made, but it's about damn time we had a good look, anyway.