Opinion: U.S. enabled Google hacking

[Deathstarr]

Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn't that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated -- we knew that already -- it's that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers.<div class="feedflare">
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Posted on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:20:31 EST at http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/4j6aw-Ho5P0/index.html