Google Calls Out China for Screwing Up Gmail
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I had the same thing happen a few months ago...Veldie said:The other day it said my Gmail had been accessed by china i changed my password right after
Also, for those of you that may not be aware, the Canadian Government was recently hacked, with the source of the attack originating in China. Clearly, China is looking for a cyber-war. This looks like a job for... ANONYMOUS!!!
Considering that Google is a global blackmail scheme waiting to happen and is relied upon by (and has bases in) several major players on the international scene the smart money is on Google.FogHornG36 said:
Don't want the world to find out that your leader likes strange grot pornography? Then pipe down and allow Google to carry on their evil masterplan.
Yeah, it really is quite sad. I had a cousin who was in China for several months as part of a student ministries team. A major part of their week long training before they went was on how to communicate with family members, so as not to have your e-mail/skype blocked. During the holidays we had a family call to him on Skype, and it kept getting cut off because he, or we, would say something that even sounded like the banned list.
China, you are fighting the internet. You cannot win. Resistance is futile, word will be disseminated.
China, you are fighting the internet. You cannot win. Resistance is futile, word will be disseminated.
I don't think I've ever meet someone from China who supported the censorship, or even had anything nice to say about it. If the people really are against this sort of crap, and the people find out, China is going to be in hot water.
I know, but buying your own country is expensive.Alrocsmash said:
OT:Well, China's walking a very fine line right now. I like the proof that keeps getting collected about China's hackers. First Google, then the US government, now the Canadian Government. I wonder what's next.
I think many groups/entities think they're better than China, seeing as it has the label of 'dictatorship', just saying.Megawat22 said:
I say this with limited political experience, but has ANY government ever operated without making a large group of people dislike them? It doesn't feel like it, these days.
These kinds of revolutions are often, for the incumbent government, the death of a thousand papercuts.
No one thing really seems to motivate everybody to stop complying. They just get more and more fed up, little by little. Intrusive police are one cut, ineffectual bureaucracy another, high taxes might be another, messing with email one more, etc. so that you can never really say for sure which mistake was the downfall of the state.
Specifically screwing directly with people who are already disgruntled and already making movements of protest, however, has the potential to be a very big papercut, though.
No one thing really seems to motivate everybody to stop complying. They just get more and more fed up, little by little. Intrusive police are one cut, ineffectual bureaucracy another, high taxes might be another, messing with email one more, etc. so that you can never really say for sure which mistake was the downfall of the state.
Specifically screwing directly with people who are already disgruntled and already making movements of protest, however, has the potential to be a very big papercut, though.
I hope this doesn't distract people too much from the acts of censorship committed by Google on the internet. They've become quite a power as well, and I hope they don't take this into their own hands. I don't like the idea of a corporation like Google getting the idea that they can control the world outside the internet as easily as they can control what's inside it.
I was of the impression that Google already pulled out of China altogether, and that none of its services were available there anymore. So is this an attack on the non-Chinese versions of the site?
If you're talking about the ones I'm thinking about, those were done at the demands of governments and companies that Google still has to answer to. Google openly defying the laws of the countries it does business in and getting away with it would actually be more unsettling, to me.Sporky111 said:
