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Chertoff: Internet Kill Switch Would Be "Troubling"

Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 17, 2011 at 1:51 pm PT

If Senators Joe Lieberman (I, Conn.) and Susan Collins (R, Maine) have their way, the President of the United States would have the authority to shut down the Internet in the country in the event of a cyber-attack or cyber-war–in other words, have access to an “Internet kill switch.”

It’s a Botnet Party Vietnam, Redux

John Paczkowski in News on April 6, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has a message for the thousands of Vietnamese citizens reportedly targeted by politically motivated cyberattacks: There were no attacks.

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China Journalist Group Hit With Cyberattack

Loretta Chao and Aaron Back, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 2, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

An international journalists association in Beijing said Friday that its Web site was the target of cyberattacks, the latest in a string of incidents that have affected foreign journalists in China. The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said in a statement that it disabled its Web site temporarily to deal with the problem after it experienced persistent attacks over two days involving a flood of traffic that overwhelmed its servers.

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Google to Act on China

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 22, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Google Inc. is expected to announce its next steps in China this week, according to a person briefed on the matter. The details of the Internet company’s plan, reached after talks with Chinese officials failed to make progress, remain unclear. The person briefed on the matter said the announcement could come as soon as Monday.

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Google CEO Sees Conclusion to China Talks Soon

Jerry Dicolo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 10, 2010 at 12:56 pm PT

Google Inc.’s chief executive said Wednesday he expects the company will soon reach a conclusion to negotiations with the Chinese government regarding the fate of its China business. “We are in active negotiations with the Chinese government,” Eric Schmidt told reporters at a media summit in Abu Dhabi. Google has decided not to publicize the status of the negotiations, he said, but “something will happen soon.”

Google's Brin Says He Is "Always Optimistic" About China Solution

Kara Swisher in News on February 12, 2010 at 11:47 am PT

Google’s Sergey Brin took the stage at the TED conference this morning for a brief discussion about the search giant’s recent declaration that it will pull out of the country if it has to continue to censor results. “We want to find a way to work within the Chinese system,” said Brin, but without having to censor political search terms. “A lot of people might think I am naive and that might be true.”