"Many international bystanders believe that Google's charge is thickly tainted with political colours and one can't dismiss the fact that Google is taking advantage and provoking new Sino-American internet security disputes with sinister intentions," a front-page editorial in Monday's international editions of the People's Daily said.
"What was once a model of leading internet innovation has now become a political tool for slandering other countries."
"Once the international winds change," the editorial later added, "Google might become a political sacrifice and might be discarded by the market."
Google declined to officially comment on the editorial, but a spokesman responded to the article's headline: "Google, What Do You Want?" What Google wanted, he said, was to protect its users and help them stay safe online, which is why it went public with the hacking allegations.
Google officials had said last Wednesday that hackers in Jinan, a coastal city in Shandong province in eastern China, had sought to gain access to the Gmail accounts of hundreds of US government officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, journalists and Asian officials. The attacks used a polished version of a rudimentary technique, called spear phishing, to trick recipients into revealing their email passwords. US officials said they had no evidence any confidential information was breached.
In January 2010, Google tied hackers in the same city to a more sophisticated and wide-ranging assault on its computer systems. The company has not suggested that the Chinese government was behind those attacks.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/beijing-denounces-google-hacking-charge-as-political-20110607-1fr7v.html#ixzz1ObLTMLkw
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