Per Karlberg
bits and pieces
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Google considers pulling out of China due to human rights and freedom of speech concerns
Voice, Loyalty, Exit:
"We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that "we will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to achieve the objectives outlined we will not hesitate to reconsider our approach to China."[...] 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."googleblog.blogspot.com >> new-approach-to-chinaIt will be VERY interesting to follow how this plays out. Definitely non-evil.
Update:
See continuous follow-up at: http://twitter.com/kaiserkuo
Censoring seems to be disabled although "uncensored" result seem to have high pagerank crowding out "new" sites. However, Tankman can be found via google.cn, try the mis-spelled query "tianamen", screencapture below:
Update 2:
Details about the attack:
wired.com >> threatlevel >> google-hack-attack/
Details about the vulnerability:
iDefense >> Adobe Reader and Acrobat JpxDecode Memory Corruption Vulnerability
