Cyberwar

• Huawei Now A 2012 Presidential Campaign Issue?
  Posted by bbishop on September 28th, 2011 at 1:11 am, Comments: 0

  From my general China blog Sinocism: Huawei Now A 2012 Presidential Campaign Issue?:   Share on StockTwits

• Unredacted Wikileaks Cable About The Google Hacking
  Posted by bbishop on September 3rd, 2011 at 8:50 pm, Comments: 0

  Last December we learned that one of the Wikileaks cables contained a claim by someone with high level connections that the attacks on Google ($GOOG) [...]

• Does Gmail Have A Basic Security Design Flaw?
  Posted by bbishop on June 4th, 2011 at 9:20 pm, Comments: 0

  I am a heavy Gmail user who lives in China. So far my Gmail account has not been hacked (or at least as far I can tell). [...]

• The Rise of China’s Cybercrats
  Posted by bbishop on March 24th, 2011 at 3:30 pm, Comments: 0

  From the perspective of Zhongnanhai, the people responsible for planning and building China’s Internet filtration systems are geniuses. Not only did they foresee the threats [...]

• “A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats” – WSJ.com
  Posted by bbishop on January 9th, 2011 at 11:20 am, Comments: 0

  Evgeny Morozov has published a new book-The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. I just bought it, but I have read enough Morozov [...]

• Questions Arising From New Details On The Google Cyberattacks
  Posted by bbishop on April 21st, 2010 at 4:52 pm, Comments: 0

  John Markoff of the New York Times discovered more information about the attacks on Google that precipitated the company’s retreat from China. In “Cyberattack on [...]

• Questions For Google If/When Google.cn Shuts Down
  Posted by bbishop on March 21st, 2010 at 1:57 pm, Comments: 0

  If the rumors and speculation are correct, Google.cn may shut as soon as this week. Most pundits will likely praise Google for staring down the [...]

• If Google.cn Will Soon Disappear, Should Google “Burn Its Boats” On The Way Out?
  Posted by bbishop on March 13th, 2010 at 7:20 pm, Comments: 0

  The Financial Times reported Saturday that Google is “99.9 percent certain” that it will shut its China search engine at Google.cn. It has been eight [...]

• Google, China and “Digital Combat”
  Posted by bbishop on January 26th, 2010 at 7:49 pm, Comments: 0

  Today’s New York Times has a long and interesting piece by Markoff and others on US preparedness for cyberwar–In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy [...]

• Will Secretary Clinton’s Speech On Internet Freedom Kill Google’s Hope For A Compromise in China?
  Posted by bbishop on January 21st, 2010 at 10:00 pm, Comments: 0

  Secrectary of State Hillary Clinton is delivering a speech in which, according to the Wall Street Journal, she will announce that “the U.S. plans to [...]