Monday, March 21, 2011

China Blamed For Gmail Disruption

Google has blamed the Chinese supervision for problems accessing its e-mail service in the country.

Internet users have complained that the authorities have stepped up intrusion of its Gmail service in new weeks.

Google mentioned it had found no technical issues, and blamed "a supervision blockage delicately written to look similar to the complaint is with Gmail".

Users say the interference coincided with an internet promotion mission for protests similar to the in the Middle East.

Last year, Google mentioned it suffered cyber-attacks from China-based organisations vigilant on hacking in to the Gmail accounts of Chinese rights activists.

The situation caused tensions between China and the United States, and led to Google shortening its participation in the Chinese market.

Beijing has always denied any state impasse in the cyber-attacks, and has in the past called such accusations "groundless".

But problems resurfaced this month with Google essay in its authorized blog about hackers exploiting a disadvantage in Internet Explorer to assault a few Gmail users.

"We've beheld a few rarely targeted and assumingly politically encouraged attacks against our users. We think activists might have been a definite target," it wrote.

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