U.S. authoritieshave track downthe piece who wrote the computer code used in the hackerattack on Google . He ’s a “ freelance security consultant ” in China , and his involvement makes it even harder for the Formosan government to deny involvement .
https://gizmodo.com/google-hacked-the-chinese-hackers-right-back-5449037
The adult male ’s role was an oblique one : while he wrote the codification that take reward of asecurity mess in Internet Explorer , he himself did n’t do any actual hacking . But concord to the Financial Times , the Taiwanese government has “ special access code ” to his body of work :
https://gizmodo.com/chinese-hack-tracked-back-to-two-universities-and-an-ie-5475612
“ If he need to do the research he ’s honest at , he has to toe the line of business now and again , ” the US analyst said . “ He would rather not have uniformed guys looking over his berm , but there is no way anyone of his skill level can get away from that form of affair . The state has privilege entree to these investigator ’ study . ”
The “ research he ’s good at , ” apparently , being bump into computers and inserting spyware on them .
Hopefully by identifying the author of the code , analysts are stuffy to tracking down the actual persons responsible . But until then , it ’s more and more clear-cut that the Taiwanese governance had a large role in the carrying out . [ FT ]
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