WikiLeaks : l'espionnage de Google par Pékin serait "100% politique" LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Yves Eudes En janvier 2010, Google annonce avoir été victime au cours des derniers mois d'une série d'opérations de cyber-espionnage. Des pirates informatiques ont réussi à pénétrer ses serveurs et à voler des données personnelles et des messages privés appartenant à des citoyens chinois, notamment des dissidents politiques. En représailles, Google annonce son intention de contourner le système de censure imposé par l'Etat sur son moteur de recherche basé en Chine, en redirigeant les internautes vers son site de Hongkong, non censuré. Le gouvernement chinois nie fermement ces accusations de piratage, et s'indigne de ce projet de contournement de la censure officielle, présenté comme une violation de la souveraineté nationale chinoise. Les rapports diplomatiques américains obtenus par WikiLeaks et consultés par Le Monde montrent que l'ambassade des Etats-Unis à Pékin s'est fortement mobilisée pour en savoir plus.
10 Things I Think I Think About 2010 We all do this. With the year coming to a close we all think forward and prognosticate about what the future will hold. To call 2009 an amazing year for our industry would be an enormous understatement. We’re going to see even more progress in 2010. So with that, I want to share with you the 10 things I think I think about 2010: 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Research Blog - Research - SecureWorks With the recently disclosed hacking incident inside Google and other major companies, much of the world has begun to wake up to what the infosec community has known for some time ? there is a persistent campaign of “espionage-by-malware” emanating from the People?s Republic of China (PRC). “Operation Aurora” is the latest in a series of attacks originating out of Mainland China. Although the code behind Operation Aurora has only recently been discovered, and the known samples of the main backdoor trojan (called Hydraq by antivirus companies) appear to be no older than 2009. The compiler often offers other clues to a malware sample? There is one interesting clue in the Hydraq binary that points back to mainland China, however. The first thing that is unusual about this CRC algorithm is the size of the table of constants (the incrementing values in the left pane of the assembly listing).
Apple pourrait tripler son chiffre d'affaires en Chine Selon Katy Huberty et Mathew Schneider, analystes pour Morgan Stanley, Apple pourrait tripler son chiffre d'affaires en Chine d'ici deux ans. Alors qu'il a contribué à hauteur de 2,9 milliards de dollars au chiffre d'affaires d'Apple pour l'année fiscale 2010, le marché chinois pourrait représenter 9 milliards de dollars en 2012 — et l'influence des consommateurs chinois augmenter tout autant. La Chine est d'ores et déjà le marché asiatique possédant la plus forte croissance pour Apple : alors que le chiffre d'affaires d'Apple a augmenté de 58 % en Europe et de 75 % au Japon entre 2009 et 2010, il a cru de 160 % dans la zone Asie-Pacifique dans le même temps, une croissance en très grande partie due à la Chine (lire : 10-K : Apple embauche et Steve Jobs voyage). Selon Morgan Stanley, les investisseurs « sous-estiment les perspectives de croissance d'Apple en Chine ». Selon Tim Cook, le directeur général d'Apple, les quatre Apple Store chinois sont les plus visités au monde.
50 Cool Search Engines for Serious Readers | Online Colleges The Internet has proven itself as a valuable resource for all types of readers, from collectors of rare books to tech-minded readers who shop, network and download books online. But if you’re having trouble finding exactly what you need, whether it’s a book review, a book by a certain author, or a digitized anthology for your class at an online college for creative writing, you’ll want to use sophisticated tools that direct you to high-quality resources. Here are 50 cool search engines for serious readers and students. For even more great search engines, read our updated list. eBooks When you want to read books online, use these search engines to find free versions, PDF files and .doc formats. Books to Swap, Sell and Buy Use these search engines when you need to swap, sell or buy a book over the Internet. Rare Books Collectors of rare, signed, and out-of-print books can use these search engines to help them complete their libraries. Book Reviews and Community Libraries
Spacecraft stats and insights by Claude LafleurMonday, April 5, 2010 Piloted spaceships, planetary probes, and space telescopes fascinate people. That’s easy to understand since these spacecraft make the discoveries of our time. Nevertheless, this is only the proverbial “tip of the iceberg” since they account for less than 10% of all spacecraft ever launched. Answering these questions tells us a lot about what’s going on in space. Here is an overview of space activities from the standpoint of spacecraft launched. Who launches what? First of all, how many spacecraft have been launched since Sputnik in 1957? Separately, I counted as two spacecraft a Space Shuttle orbiter that delivers a payload into orbit. So, I’ve developed a logic to count the number of spacecraft, but whatever logic you could design, there’ll always be some exceptions. Now the answer: as of December 31, 2009, there were 6,854 spacecraft launched. Of those spacecraft, 3,543 are Russian and 1,811 are American. Come fly with… whom? The Chinese myth
Les USA insistent sur la balance commerciale avec la Chine WASHINGTON, 5 janvier (Reuters) - La Maison blanche, qui s'apprête à recevoir le président chinois Hu Jintao en visite à Washington, a insisté mardi auprès du ministre chinois des Affaires étrangères sur la nécessité de réduire le déséquilibre commercial entre les deux puissances. Le conseiller à la sécurité nationale, Tom Donilon, a "souligné l'importance d'efforts efficaces pour réduire les déséquilibres tant dans l'économie mondiale que dans le commerce sino-américain", rapporte la présidence américaine dans un communiqué rendant compte des entretiens avec Yang Jiechi. Barack Obama, qui s'est joint à la réunion avec le ministre chinois, a réaffirmé lui sa volonté d'améliorer la coopération globale avec Pékin. Ces discussions servaient de préparation à la venue en visite d'Etat du président chinois Hu Jintao à Washington le 19 janvier. Les Etats-Unis reprochent à Pékin de maintenir délibérément le yuan à un taux de change minoré afin de doper les exportations chinoises.
Feeding Greed - a major pastime So this is Christmas! I haven't been on for a while and now, in the late evening of Christmas day, I have a strange feeling of forebodance which urges me to write. A feeling born, I'm certain, out of nothing in particular but more from something general and omni-present. 2009 has been a very tough year for many of us and the troubles are not over yet. Our world is in a seriously sick state despite the wonderful things being achieved by some world leaders for care in this time of ill health. Unfortunately, greed is not only ever-present but growing stronger every day as per its nature and, here in the west at any rate, we are fueling its needs like never before! I'm not going to bang on about the commercialism of Christmas and how its real meaning has been forgotten because that's a very prickly thorn and grasping it without adequate protection could be very painful indeed. Greed lives, greed grows, greed conquers all, greed rules! More, more, waste, waste, buy, buy, bye, bye.
Behind China's Great Firewall - News and Analysis by PC Magazine In light of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, more scrutiny is being placed on China's Web-filtering practices. PC Magazine takes a closer look. For more than a decade, the Chinese government has been developing a system to filter Internet traffic (called the "Great Firewall"). According to the agency that monitors Internet traffic, the Ministry of Information Industry, these measures are put in place to protect children and other Internet users from illegal and offensive content. With the Beijing Olympic Games set to kick off August 8, China's Internet policies are being placed under new and more intense scrutiny. "There's a lot of cat and mouse going on right now because of the Olympics," Boyd says. Truly understanding this issue means taking a close look at what exactly the government filters out, how the Great Firewall works, and how others have found ways around it.
Un chef de la propagande chinoise prend une douche de billets Wu Hao, le directeur adjoint du département de la propagande, s'attendait à une après-midi tranquille lorsqu'il est entré dans l'amphithéâtre de l'université de Renmin. Mais avant même qu'il ait pu ouvrir la bouche, une pluie de billets s'abattait sur lui. Wu Hao allait commencer son discours, le 22 avril, devant les étudiants en journalisme de l'université de Renmin (Yunan), quand un jeune homme de 25 ans, qui s'est présenté comme un internaute, s'est approché de lui pour lui jeter une liasse de billets de 50 cents à la figure, en scandant "Wu Hao, Wu Mao !" Wu Hao est dans le collimateur des internautes chinois depuis l'année dernière. Pour l'étudiant, ces billets étaient donc un "hommage" au fonctionnaire chinois.
Vintage Ad Browser China cracks down on VPN use | Technology Chinese internet users suspect that their government is interfering with the method they have been using to tunnel under the "Great Firewall" to prevent them connecting with the outside world. Sites such as search engine Google and news site MSN have become difficult to access, they say. And a number of universities and businesses have begun warning their users not to try to evade the firewall. Since 6 May, a number of users says that internet connections via China Telecom, the largest telephone company, and China Unicom have become "unstable", with intermittent access when trying to access sites in foreign countries using a "virtual private network" (VPN) – a preferred method of evading the blocks put up by China's censors to external sites. Even Apple's app store has been put off-limits by the new blocks, according to reports. But this month that appears to have changed.
The Myth of Music Ownership Now, on the surface, that's a fairly provocative statement, seemingly designed to inflame music industry lawyers, and encourage outraged comments from audiophile readers. But it is actually intended to demonstrate/debunk an illogical yet widely-held belief, illustrate a precipitating technology trend, and put the idea of "my music" into historical perspective. The ability to record and playback music is really quite a recent occurence, when you consider the span of human existence on planet Earth. People have been making music for hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of years! Producing music has always been a thing that *everybody* does, young and old, male and female, professional and layman, commoner and king. Until Edison, music was not something you could own, only something you could make. Until Edison ... And his Phonograph Machine. The commercial innovation created by the invention of recorded audio was the ability to sell music to consumers. Why? Atoms Versus Bits The Myth - pdx