Oh, please

"The theft began with an instant message sent to a Google employee in China who was using Microsoft’s Messenger program, according to the person with knowledge of the internal inquiry, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified"?

So no, google employee did not use gtalk, he/she used MSN? Right. Let me turn off half of my brain and I might swallow this bs.

As for google getting a collective heart attack, serves them right. For more than a decade we have abandoned "security through obscurity" for exactly these reasons. Then this also means they did not patch it properly and cannot patch it properly as had they done it and are 100% confident in their "secret" they would not pull out of China.

If so, i would think twice before getting an Android...

...for running Microsoft software with open access to your internal network. Of course Google needs to run Windows to test their software, but sandboxing Windows boxes so they can only do limited damage "when" they are infected I think would be the first step in preventing future problems such as this. Using them for everyday use (including accessing the Internet) is probably not a great idea, either. They are competing with Microsoft,yet using Microsoft's buggy products themselves has placed them at a competitive disadvantage.

I know Google has developed their own (internal use) Linux distro for servers, but perhaps they should look at the desktop as well (or at thin clients). If they buy Novell, they would have both.

Chinese foundry SMIC stole TSMC's process technology.

Chinese networking equipment company Huawei stole Cisco's router operating system.

Government officials cheer the whole time, so long as they are properly compensated.

It's one hell of a way to run a country.

Since China's government loves Intel's innovation, Intel has built a semiconductor wafers plant in China. Hopefully, the chips from this plant will have some special receipts that suitable to be implanted in the brain.

Google's privacy policy will protect you!

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - Schmidt (Google CEO)