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> and after the Chinese government attempted to hack into the Gmail accounts of human rights advocates in 2009

Not really relevant to the story, but this was always a lie. The reason that China hacked Google had nothing to do with spying on activists. It’s a cover story for a counter-intel op.

China hacked the “PRISM”-like feature in order to see which of their spies had been burned, based on whether or not the US government had wiretaps on those accounts.

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/google-auro...

https://www.cio.com/article/2386547/-aurora--cyber-attackers...




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