[Abbenay] hacker news

[Ove Ridé]

2010/1/13 Ged Wed <gedw99 at gmail.com>:
> Hey,
>
> Some serious corporate hacking has been revealed by Google today.
>
> http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/baidu-tw-google/
>
> Try it. http://www.baidu.tw/ is pointing to Google search engine. Thast very
> strange.
> The DNS has been repointed in the last few days.
> This is super weird, especially when you consider the bombshell that Google
> dropped about China and the hacking of 30 companies that has been going on.
> Read the this below that came out today.
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/furious-google-throws-down-gauntlet-to-china-over-censorship.ars
> Me thinks the two incidents might be related ..
I did a little research...
Whois: http://who.is/whois/baidu.tw/
...shows the owner as some "xiaodo xiaodo" (Sounds like a fake name,
doesn't it?) The domain is registered with a free e-mail service
(21cn.com) This whois service also shows a thumbnail of the page,
which doesn't look anything like Baidu.
Furthermore: Wikipedia says that Baidu are serving China and Japan,
but no mention of Taiwan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu

Perhaps the owner of baidu.tw was inspired by recent events and
redirected the domain, but I think the notion that Google was somehow
behind it is a myth busted.

-- 
/Ove

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