Google Investigating Chinese Employees 181
BluePeppers writes "The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating its staff about The Incident. '"We're not commenting on rumor and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details," a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorized access to a computer. The analysts said the sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself.'"
Somewhere in Mountain View... (Score:5, Interesting)
Somewhere in Mountain View, servers are now analyzing all activity of Google's employees in China. And their friend. And their friend's friends. And the people they email. And everyone who got in range of a Google security camera. And all the their friends. And the people they email.
Espionage Big risk of Overseas Outsourcing (Score:3, Interesting)
Espionage is a BIG risk in all Overseas Outsourcing. The overseas employees (or foreigners brought in on L-1 or H-1b visas) are ultimately loyal to their home country. If their country orders them to spy, turn over Intellectual Property, etc., don't be surprised! Google is not the big risk. Microsoft, for example, has a big tech center in China. One must wonder what sorts of spying, back doors, trojans, are being planted in Windows!
Hate to say this... (Score:2, Interesting)
Hate to say this...as it does sound racist, but I know for a fact that most of the chinese employees within a company that deals with
china, will side to help the chinese side of the deal rather then their own company that is dealing with china, also even went so far as to give out confidential info and deal breaking intel to manufacturers so as to be able to charge top dollar when they could, based on types of situations that came up.
For me, it might sound racist, but I truly believe that they have been brainwashed to really stand by their country, even when they are of different citizenship, and even live abroad...they will still report back to the motherland to help in anyway they can.
Is this wrong, the jews have been doing this for eons, so I guess not really, as it would be hypocritical to say this, but
I do believe that a religion and way of life, is much different then a country's dictator's point of view of what life should be.
I know i might get spammed with a lot of comments on my view points, but I have to say, we did this to ourselves.
If we allow muslems to come into our country and force us to change our country's ways to allow them to continue living the way they lived back home, then why did they leave int he first place. If you want to join the RCMP and then tell them that they are not allowed to ask you to remove your turban to put on the proper RCMP uniform, you should understand that this is part of the RCMP religion, to wear the RCMP hat.
As for chinese, if they come into the country and work for a canadian/amercian country, why would they try to still make china the
more profitable partner in the deal....they left that country, for what ever reason...seems like they are almost doing this on purpose as if told to do so by the dictator himself...?
Re:Google is more powerful than I thought.. (Score:3, Interesting)
what about a bacon plasma torch [popsci.com]?
Re:Spies everywhere (Score:4, Interesting)
The prestige with NSA is that you DO work with bright ppl and yes, systems that will not be known about for decades. Finally, NSA pushes you to excel. FBI simply pushes you. And DHS is LOADED with absolute IDIOTS. More cronyism in there, and everybody that I knew in there were total idiots in the private world. DHS is one of those nightmares that should be destroyed.