Yay for Google

I'm proud of Google.

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all"

See

• Google's Chinese search engine displays images of Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man'
  http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-defies-chinese-internet-censors-with-banned-images-of-tiananmen-square-tank-man/story-e6frfro0-1225819075307
• Google may quit China over filtering, cyberattacks
  http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-may-quit-china-over-filtering-cyberattacks/story-e6frfro0-1225818752682

Update from http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/01/researchers-identify-command-servers-behind-google-attack.ars

Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack
Citing sources in the defense contracting and intelligence consulting community, the iDefense report unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was, in fact, behind the effort. The report also says that the malicious code was deployed in PDF files that were crafted to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe's software.