China's Politburo Behind Google Cyber-Attack? 142
theodp writes "While Wikileaks itself is under a DoS attack, details about the US State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks are starting to come out via the mainstream media. Among the most newsworthy, reports Techcrunch's Erick Schonfeld, is one set which deals with the massive computer attack on Google and other companies which was first revealed last January. According to the NY Times, some of the new leaked cables point directly at China's Politburo for instigating the original attacks, which should shed some more light on why the White House and State Department backed Google so vociferously at the time. Developing, as Drudge likes to say."
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Re:Attention wh0re? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:headline? (Score:3, Funny)
[T]he military, hates to use encryption on their datalinks, has so poor security that a demoted enlisted man had full access to all sorts of diplomatic, and covert records. Does this group sound capable of not only creating a DDOS but doing it in such a way that it can't be tracked back to them?
Well the managed to arrange 911 and make it look like foreign terrorists were responsible. And that's never been traced back to them, has it?
At least that's what the dude on the train with 'TRUTH' on his tee-shirt was telling me ...
Civ Game (Score:2, Funny)
Is it me or does the world look more and more like some kid's Civ game from another dimension? A word of wisdom to the Chinese: hack Google all you want, just don't get too ambitious and start building a spaceship to Alpha Centauri, and doom us all to the endgame.
What? (Score:3, Funny)