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cyberattacks

We Did the Impossible, and That Makes Us Mighty

Cyberweapon to Take Down Internet … Whenever

by Jamie Frevele | 4:02 pm, February 12th

So, some guys got together and figured out a way to take down the entire Internet as we know it. One guy was like, “Dude — remember that time we were talking about conquering the Internet? … Wanna try it?” And his buddy was all, “Pssssssht, come on, man! … You think we could?” So the first guy, totally seriously says, “Totally.” And they did!

Okay, maybe this isn’t exactly how it went down, but Ph.D. candidate Max Schuchard of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues did have the idea to design the ultimate cyberweapon, an attack that would render the Internet dead, useless, and blacked out, for at least a few days before it could even start to be repaired. And then save it for a rainy day. They don’t see anyone trying to wage this kind of attack any time soon, so in the meantime, they are going to work on how to defend against it. But here is what they came up with:

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Google.cn To Be Shut Down: “99.9 Per Cent” Chance

by Susana Polo | 2:54 pm, March 13th

Sometime in December 2009, Google fended off a “sophisticated and targeted attack” in China, the goal of which seemed to be to access the accounts of Chinese human rights activists.  This attack, and other attempts at the surveillance of human rights activists in China that were revealed during Google’s investigation into the attack, lead Google to announce a change of policy.

From a January Google Blog post:

We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

Well, as things so often do with large governments, a few weeks has become a few months, and yesterday, the Chinese minister for industry and information technology confirmed that if Google violated Chinese law it would be considered “unfriendly,” “irresponsible,” and “would have to bear the consequences.”

According to the Financial Times, whose source is “familiar with the company’s thinking,” Google is now preparing to close Google.cn:

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