China's Politburo Behind Google Cyber-Attack?

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."

Re:How the hell is this modded interesting?

[dcollins]

"China is the new bogeyman."

China was also the old bogeyman, 2000-2001, before we went drooling and raving for 10 years about guys in caves who got off one lucky, unrepeatable shot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Team_%28U.S._politics%29
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?us_military_specific_cases_and_issues=us_military_tmln_spy_plane_crash_in_china&timeline=us_military_tmln
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Asia/Revving_China_Threat.html

Re:Most newsworthy?

[clarkkent09]

Just search for cables about Iran: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-wikileaks [guardian.co.uk] It becomes clear pretty soon that most countries in the region are far most hostile to Iran that I ever knew before (including words like existential threat and direct urging by a number of countries for the US to strike, bunch of leaders call Iran evil and a fascist state) and that Israel will definitely not be willing to live with nuclear Iran and that apparently Iran is not negotiating in good faith and is only buying time until it has enough material for a bomb. Unless Iran backs down, I don't see how that does not lead to a war.

Re:note chinese news' silence

[hansguckindieluft]

sorry, i erred. it's not on the frontpage yet but a search for wikileak gives results: http://search.news.cn/language/search.jspa?id=en&t=1&t1=0&ss=&ct=&n1=wikileak&x=0&y=0 [search.news.cn]

Re:headline?

[harrytuttle777]

You can ask the same question of Fidel Castro.

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"Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine, renounced his citizenship, defected to the Soviet union, married a soviet wife, came back to the USA with state department blessing ,and shot the president all during the hight of the cold war without any assistance from any outside agency whatsoever."
-U.S. Government publication

diplomatic discussion and world views

[Gary W. Longsine]

Obviously you're not reading the discussion in which you've elected to participate, let alone source materials and fine articles. If you had, you would know that the surprises are the support for the "U.S. world view" coming from surprising sources, like other countries in the middle east, who agree that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons is a very serious threat to world security.

Re:headline?

[ScrewMaster]

And I think you meant cojones...oh, and btw, "having huevos" it's also used in many Latinamerican countries the same way you use "having guts"...

Correct, which if you'll re-read my post was the exact context in which I used it.