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The organization openly recruited for new members online and assisted users in creating and distributing Trojan horses and other programs to carry out attacks. Known as Black Hawk Safety Net, the site had reportedly brought in about $1 million in income since launching in 2005 through a network of more than 12,000 paying subscribers -- another 170,000 had signed into the organizations' free membership.
The reports come less than a month after Google said it was no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service, and threatened to pull out of the country, citing a cyber attack targeting the emails of human rights activists within the company (and almost 30 others) along with intellectual property. Curiously, the raid is said to have taken place in late November of 2009 but it is only being reported now.
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treeski said:
Sounds pretty shady to me...
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Ha ha! yeah, I doubt this is actually true by a long shot...
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Timonius said:
probably a convenient cover up
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Sounds like more chinese government poop to me.
I agree with all of the above posters on this one.
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yangly18 said:
same, they messed up, now they need to make themselves look good so google won't abandon them xD
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Well, Google is going into partnership with our NSA now and anyone who doesn'n think they arn't a part of China's crap is very naive. Your already archived and Google is now going to be the new tool of our Stossi. Be afraid people, very afraid.
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