At the beginning of the year 2010, Google released the news about the vast attacks to its Gmail users, most of them were the Chinese human rights activists.
This raised many controversies about the Gmail privacy issues. The threats to these websites are so serious that they claim these attackers are so professional and high-level; they are certainly supported by a government service.
In USA, these attacks are considered to be an “alarm” which caused Google to defend the governmental supervision on its website. Since then the internet Hulk, Google has decided to sign a contract with the Intelligence Service of America to let them investigate the espionage attacks of a Chinese group.
The aim of this is to help Google better defend its users and their information from being attacked.
The main issue to discuss here is that Google has permitted this intelligence agency-which is the most powerful electronic investigation organization in the world- to use any important and sensitive information under one condition: no violation of Google policies of protecting privacy and online communications. Google has not given the permission to this organization to monitor the users’ searches or their email accounts.
The main goal of this project which most probably is impossible is not to find the people behind these attacks; but to find solutions to modify the Google defending system or what is professionally called the “information Security”.
Google claims: attacking the websites and networks and extracting the personal information of people, companies and private and government institutes leads to legal, security, economical and political losses and neglecting the modification of the system will result in regret.
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