China hacking Google

The Bum — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:43:59 +0000

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. China, you now have everybody outside your country getting pissed, and I don’t mean “oh, let them have their way in their own land” pissed, but “you’re coming on our terms now” pissed. This goes beyond the climate summit at Copenhagen where you just made a mockery of the whole situation. Currently, I see Google, VeriSign, the US Department of Defense, and a whole mess of news agencies now chomping at the bit for the next…thing. China, you just shit and fell back in it. Sure, dictate what you want to the people you govern because after being there and seeing many of the people, they’re too backwards for complete autonomy just yet. They can’t even queue properly for proper fairness of the population, and that’s desperately needed. “National queuing day” was a nice touch though; huge laugh from that one because I saw it was severely needed and apparently useless as I was getting slammed into the plate-glass doors at a McDonald’s.

Clean up this mess before I visit again, please. I don’t want to have any problems looking around the country.

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China hacking Google