Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the "Internet freedom" made a speech, accusing China's Internet management policies, insinuate Chinese restrictions on Internet freedom, to the world to market their so-called "freedom of information." Before the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was an uproar against the United States along with other high-tech companies, saying that "Google's actions are all businesses and governments should learn from the example." U.S. government officials to Google desire to withdraw from China, or for explicitly or implicitly attacks on China's Internet freedom, their intention?
Network attack - in the end who is attacking and who is the victim?
Hillary talked about Google, "often face varying degrees of cyber attacks." In fact, the hacker attacks on the network can be described as the world's pollution, the world are affected by their intrusion. Since 1994, the formal introduction of the Internet in China has always been faced with China's Internet hacker attacks, network viruses and other illegal and criminal activities, serious threat. According to the sampling data show that in China alone in 2009 were outside the control of the computer IP addresses reached more than 100 million, have been tampered with hacker organization's website up to 42000; in by the network virus threats, last year only to be " fly-off, "a network worm infected the number of computers per month reached 18 million units, accounting for the world's infected hosts 30% of the total, ranking the world. Can be said that our country is the biggest victim of cyber-attacks.
Hacker attacks are spontaneous acts of Internet users, there are some countries, the government organizational behavior. In fact, the United States in the latter be called first in the world, the headquarters of the United States is not only hackers, but also the world's first country to introduce the concept of network warfare, is the first one will be applied to real country. The United States also establish and develop a new military branch - Army network. According to the U.S. "New York Times" reported that the U.S. Department of Defense to take measures to strengthen the U.S. military prepare for network warfare capabilities, the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in June last year, the official ordered the creation of Cyber Command to unify the coordination of network security to protect U.S. forces and conduct network warfare such as computer network-related military operations. As in May 2009, Microsoft Corp., according to the U.S. government's mandate, cutting off Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan and North Korea five countries MSN instant messaging service port. Before and after the election in Iran, the United States in order to support the electoral defeat of the reformists, the use of push special (Twitter) to help create public opinion opposition momentum. Can be seen in the United States, where the Internet is a practical tool for the sanctions, the Internet acts as the U.S. government to crack down on other countries of the "hatchet man" and "accomplice" effect. While unreasonably criticized his country, but on their readiness to strengthen the network warfare capabilities, such an approach is not kindness.
