Chinese Government Archive

  • Google ditching Windows because of Chinese hackers?

    Google ditching Windows because of Chinese hackers?

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    "See you in hell, Windows." That's Google talking, according to a report in the Financial Times. (Not an exact quote, mind you.) The company is taking several steps to phase out the use of Microsoft's operating system following the well-publicized China hacking situation. New employees are given the option of using a Mac or a Linux-based PC, and others are simply being switched over to Mac or Linux when the time is right. It's not an official Google policy, but rather something that's just being done.

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  • Trying to track down those Chinese hackers

    Trying to track down those Chinese hackers

    Posted on February 19, 2010 | No Comments
    More news from that China hacking deal. Investigators have tracked the attacks that befell Google and other victims to two schools in China, one of which has ties to the Chinese military. Whether or not this was an officially sanctioned series of attacks, or merely a couple of comp-sci students testing out their skills, clearly nobody knows. That's the beauty of these hacks: there's not a chance in hell there's going to be a "smoking gun," giving the hosts of The Today Show a three minute segment on Chinese hacking.

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  • China said, India said: Cyberattacks have the countries pointing fingers at each other

    China said, India said: Cyberattacks have the countries pointing fingers at each other

    Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
    You know how when you watch Fox News and CNN and whatnot there's all these reports of evil Chinese (or North Korean or whoever our enemy is this week) hackers attacking poor, defenseless American servers? Well, if you believe what the Chinese government just said, then it turns out that, in fact, China is the biggest victim of cyberattacks each year. This all stems from an Indian complaint that Chinese cyberattackers had attacked computers belonging to the country's National Security Advisor.

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  • World of Warcraft is back in China~!

    World of Warcraft is back in China~!

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Chinese gamers can once again feel the joy of buying an epic on the Auction House for 100G, then selling it for 300G to some sap. Yes, World of Warcraft is officially, 100 percent back in China. This is clearly huge news that's totally worth your time of day.

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  • HTC Click to launch in China

    HTC Click to launch in China

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Images of the Click first appeared on the Interwebs a few weeks back and PC World is reporting that Dopod will launch the low-end Android device later this year in China. However, Dopod has plans to launch the Hero this month before the Click goes live in Q4. The Click will come with two interchangeable [...]

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  • In China: Acer, Lenovo and Asustek voluntarily ship PCs with filtering software

    In China: Acer, Lenovo and Asustek voluntarily ship PCs with filtering software

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Green Dam, a filtering software that's supposed to protect China's population from harmful content (and can be called a piece of garbage on more than one level), seems to trigger anticipatory obedience (you could also call it business sense, I guess) within some PC companies. Even though the Chinese government postponed its plans to make the software mandatory with all PC shipments in the country from July 1, Acer, Asustek and Lenovo already bundle their hardware with Green Dam.

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