Google pulls out of China
Is this a divorce or separation? I chronicled Google’s dysfunctional marriage to China last month. This week Google shut down its search service on the Chinese mainland last night after a two-month standoff with Beijing over censorship and the much talked about hacking incident.
Google.cn now redirects visitors to google.com.hk – where they are greeted by a message reading: “Welcome to Google search in China’s new home.”
The move allowed Google to stop self-censoring the service, although the government’s filtering system would still prevent mainland users from seeing the results of many “politically sensitive” searches.
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William J McBorrough is a Security Expert with many years of success Managing, Designing, and Implementing medium and large enterprise Physical and Information Technology Security Solutions. His experience spans the spectrum from small e-commerce start-ups to multi-campus state and federal agencies to global financial sector organizations. He is on the faculty of various universities including University of Maryland University College, EC-Council University, George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College where he conducts research and teach graduate and undergraduate courses relating to cybersecurity, cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and information security and assurance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Computing Engineering with a concentration in digital networks and a Masters of Science in Information Security and Assurance. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk Information System Control (CRISC), and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).He is well versed in personnel, systems and network security risk management. His core competencies include Developing cost effective solutions to enable mission assurance in the following areas: Enterprise Risk Management, IT Governance, Security Organization Development, Information Security and Assurance
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