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Computerworld  that a “highly sophisticated and targeted” attack against
Google’s network last month originated in China, and tried to access the Gmail
accounts of Chinese human rights activists.


In a blog post Tuesday, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said
that attacks have forced the company to “review the feasibility of our business
operations in China.” Google, continued Drummond, is “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.”


The end result of those discussions, said Drummond, may be that Google shuts
down its search engine and close its offices in the People’s Republic of
China.


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“This is a bold and a very difficult move on [Google's] part,” said Leslie
Harris, the president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology
(CDT), a Washington, D.C.-based civil liberties group. “But with the revelations
that there have been major cyber attacks aimed at human rights activists, both
in China and in the West, it’s hard to see how Google could have remained
silent.”


According to Drummond, Google was one of at least 20 large companies that
were targeted by massive attacks in December. In Google’s case, the attacks
resulted in the theft of some company intellectual property.

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