This is what happens when you get mad and start pounding on the ATM.
According to the WSJ, Iran is dumping access to Gmail and starting their own state-run email service, to “build trust between people and the government.” Fantastic idea.
I’ve been trying to unlock the Douchebag badge for months. It’s not fair. I can pop a collar, son.
(via soupsoup & allthecoolkids)
“Citing sources in the defense contracting and intelligence consulting community, the iDefense report unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was, in fact, behind the effort.”
“If the report’s findings are correct, it suggest that the government of China has been engaged for months in a massive campaign of industrial espionage against US companies.”
Is anyone shocked? Probably not.
“Google linked its decision to sophisticated cyberattacks on its computer systems that it suspected originated in China and that were aimed, at least in part, at the Gmail user accounts of Chinese human rights activists.”
What the article doesn’t tell you is that the attacks were orchestrated by the Chinese government.
Fuck ‘em.
I wish Bono would keep his thoughts to himself.