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Security Problems For Microsoft & China
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-01-20
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Microsoft appears to be having problems right now. In much of the world, Bill Gates and his software giant appear to be ogres. The company is under much scrutiny by the blogosphere because of their decision to restrict or in this case eliminate controversial Chinese blogs not agreeable with the Chinese government.
Beijing-based New York Times researcher Zhao Jing had many of his posts deleted from his blog. In other words, they were censoring. According to Microsoft, they were merely following the laws of the Chinese government. It's the cost of doing business in China.
Now comes the tricky part. With word coming out of members of the British Parliament have their computers hacked into, Microsoft may be under additional pressure. While nothing appears to have been taken, most believe it was the Chinese who did it, specifically the Chinese military. Microsoft hasn't said much anything regarding this.
Should they? Does Microsoft as a corporation based in the U.S., traded on Wall Street, entrenched in the American culture have responsibility to help prevent cyber attacks from a country it's doing a decent amount of business with? Is the company obligated to help protect American cyber interests?
Much of the U.S. runs on computers and Microsoft has been a huge part of that. While they obviously have a strong presence in China, if charges people like Alan Paller are claiming turn out to be true and China is directly responsible for these assaults, does Microsoft have responsibility to the U.S. to help protect the country from such attacks?
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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