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WikiLeaked Cables Confirm China’s Politburo Was Behind Google Hacking Incident

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145 pointsabraham16 comments

No, it confirms US suspicion of Chinese state sponsorship of that attack. But that's not news, even a little bit.

People who can authoritatively talk about such attacks can't or don't talk. So, information out there is mostly anecdotal at best or just plain speculation. These cables add to that stack of information but from a much higher level of involvement. It may not be new or news but it's certainly from more credible source than what we usually hear from.

I'm objecting to the wording of the headline. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm arguing that there's no story at all.

The "China's official involvement in Google hack confirmed" headline is a serious overreach.

True. For the headline to be solid, these would have to be Chinese cables, not US ones. But this is probably closest we are going to get.

To be fair, government confirmation of a 'contact' 'inside the Chinese parties involved' seems like at least somewhat of a new development. Maybe not 'proof', but definitely stronger evidence - maybe even a step beyond suspicion.

The cables simply do not "confirm" China's involvement in the attack. Such confirmation, it seems to me, would be a blockbuster story worthy of the front page of CNN.

Have you found the relevant cables somewhere online? I've been looking and am unable to locate the actual cables involved in this particular story.

if the sources were deemed extremely reliable one would imagine that it would be enough confirmation.

This is not a new finding, Google is competent enough to realize who is behind such kinds of attacks. That's why they kicked up a big storm (threatening to leave China etc).

There is a vast difference in "knowing" who was doing it, and having proof.

The cables are not necessarily proof.

Granted. But they're a lot more substantial than the crowd-sourced judgement of the ignorant masses.

TC manages to sensationalize a NYT story and get it all wrong.

I really wish reporters would link to or provide citations to the relevant cables.

If you read that cable (which I have not) who will actually verify the authenticity of the content ?

I don't see the US or China confirming or denying anything.

Has someone found the actual cable yet? All the cables released so far have been posted on http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/ but after sorting through them for a while, I can't find the one referencing Google.

Looks like Google has indexed the new release, and a quick site: search shows a few references to Google, but none of them seem to be the one referenced in this story.

http://www.google.com/search?q=google%20site%3Acablegate.wik...

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