Damn it China. You’re making my life a little more annoying right now with your gmail attacks. Who the fuck cares anymore? When I visited your country for the Beijing Olympics, I knew pretty quickly that there was a great facade showing. Locals even told me how many of the people were told not to leave their homes or were “temporarily” moved elsewhere to attempt to reduce the smog of the city. The Chinese people are bass-akwards from the rest of the civilized world and aren’t ready to completely enter, but you have to start loosening the reigns a bit. Read that as stop hacking accounts for dissent; such methods never work in the long run.
I am getting all kinds of emails asking whether gmail accounts are secure and whether China is after their information. The real issue isn’t about security, it’s about a public relations shit-storm you just made….
Jan 14 2010