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NSA muscles in on Google’s Chinese attacks

Google enlists NSA for probing
Fri Feb 05 2010, 12:28

GOOGLE HAS enlisted the muscle of the US National Security Agency (NSA) to explore the alleged Chinese hack attacks, which have been all the rage of the past few weeks.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is still the only company out of 20 that it publicly claimed were targeted by Chinese hackers after posting a blog to say it would stop restricting censorship results on Google.cn.

Google has backtracked and is looking for a get out clause from its initial knee jerk statement. It has since announced it is working with China to find a workable system but the company is also "working with the relevant US authorities" to find out where exactly the attacks were generated from.

That said, Google and the NSA won't be drawn any further on the exact workings of the relationship.

In keeping with its shadowy roots, all an NSA spokeswoman would say was, "The NSA is not able to comment on specific relationships we may or may not have with US companies. The NSA works with a broad range of commercial partners and research associates to ensure the security of the government's national security computer networks."

Apparently Google and the NSA - the most power surveillance organisation on the planet - had clandestine meetings to draft a cooperative research and development agreement. This means the NSA could have a butchers at some of Google's breached data. µ

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Suspiciously wrong

You'd offhand think it would make sense, but it doesn't, because first of all google has much more in-house expertise regarding the internet and technologies, and secondly the part they might have trouble with, that is investigating in-the-field in foreign places, well that's a CIA job not an NSA job, NSA is only 'useful' for spying inside the US, and preferably on everybody according to their thinking, and I'm sure that the people who put a damn splitter on AT&T backbone to listen in on millions upon millions of americans even though it was illegal has no qualms about installing a snooping backdoor on google.

You were warned and notified.

posted by : W.-, 08 February 2010 Complain about this comment
This is old news they've been working together already

Google has been working with the CIA, NSA, DIA etc. for a long time now:
http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2010/01/15/on-google-vs-china-why-google-is-now-suddenly-against-censorship-in-china/

posted by : Karel, 06 February 2010 Complain about this comment
No, no, you're all wrong!

Google just wants to add the NSA's stable of hypercomputers to its servers.

posted by : rich wargo, 05 February 2010 Complain about this comment
Oh no Blip, you're wrong

This Fox can do no evil. Google is the saint of all companies, even moreso than Apple. Only Microsoft would even think of doing something evil. You can trust Google with every last bit of your data.

posted by : Dan, 05 February 2010 Complain about this comment
SO the result of the China flap

IS to be a merger of go_ogle with the gov't. As I expected. Stated reasons are always outright lies opposite of real reasons.

posted by : bigger_luddite, 05 February 2010 Complain about this comment
false flag

My guess is these are coordinated false flag attacks to usher in government control of the internet. China and the US are in full cooperation.

posted by : Bisky, 05 February 2010 Complain about this comment
Fox and the Hen house .

DON'T LET THE FOX GUARD THE HENHOUSE - "Don't assign a job to someone who will then be in a position to exploit it for his own ends."

posted by : Blip, 05 February 2010 Complain about this comment
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