Mar 21
Google: China Hacking Gmail
Posted in: Google, Miscellaneous Tech, Today's Chili
According to Google, the Chinese government has hacked Gmail over fears of a “jasmine revolution” inspired by string of anti-governmental protests across the Middle East. Users and advertisers alike have complained about usage problems with the popular Webmail service, making it difficult to send messages, mark messages as read, and use other features.
Google insists that there’s are no issues with the service on its end. Said a Google spokesman, “Relating to Google there is no issue on our side. We have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.”
This isn’t the first that Google has claimed to have been attacked by the Chinese government. In January of last year, the search giant revealed findings that the government had hacked its services in an attempt to find evidence of human rights activists in that country.
The Chinese government is apparently looking to cut out the middle man altogether. Late last month, it launched search engine Panguso through state run China Mobile Ltd.
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