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Clinton warns hackers of consequences
Malaysia News.Net
Thursday 21st January, 2010 (IANS)
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday warned there would be consequences for hackers after a series of cyber attacks on US internet firms, including search giant Google.
'Countries or individuals that engage in cyber attacks should face consequences and international condemnation,' Clinton said in a speech on internet freedom in Washington.
Google last week said the company was reviewing its operations in China following 'a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China' last month and attempts by the Chinese government to limit free speech on the web.
The blog posting announced Google's intention to end its compliance with China's internet censorship regulations, in a move welcomed by human rights groups. The company launched its China-based search engine Google.cn in January 2006, agreeing to comply with Chinese laws and to filter search results.
Some 33 other US firms were also subject to similar cyber attacks.  Email this story to a friend
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Historybytes
01-21-10, 04:15 PM |
Clinton warns hackers of consequences
You mean like the Inslaw Software stolen by Reagan and used by the Dept. of Justice???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
In the mid-1970s, Inslaw developed for the United States Department of Justice a highly efficient, people-tracking, software program known as: Prosecutor’s Management Information System (Promis). Inslaw’s principal owners, William Anthony Hamilton and his wife, Nancy Burke Hamilton, later sued the United States Government (acting as principal to the Department of Justice) for not complying with the terms of the Promis contract and for refusing to pay for an enhanced version of Promis once delivered. This allegation of software piracy led to three trials in separate federal courts and two congressional hearings.
During ensuing investigations, the Department of Justice was accused of deliberately attempting to drive Inslaw into Chapter 7 liquidation; and of distributing and selling stolen software for covert intelligence operations of foreign governments such as Canada, Israel, Singapore, Iraq, Egypt, and Jordan; and of becoming directly involved in murder.
Is it THAT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE that is going to do the prosecuting?
Effin hypocrites.
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