Yesterday, Google announced that it would stop filtering search results in China, and that it was considering shutting down its China operations all together. In a post on the Official Google Blog, the company revealed that recently a sophisticated cyber attack on Google and other companies came from within China, and was targeted against human rights activists.“What at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different,” Google Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wrote in the post.
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