Among the many revelations in the new massive leak of secret government communications from Wikileaks is the claim that the attacks against Google in China about one year ago were directed by China’s Politburo, the group which supervises the Communist Party of China.

The actual text of the document seems not to be available yet, but has been provided to certain news organizations and has been reported on by them. The New York Times report states:

A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said.

Without the actual text of the cable referred to it is hard to comment on the claim,

Wikileaks has been the target of a massive DDOS (distributed denial of service attack) since the release of the documents and one report says they have moved their operations to the Amazon EC2 cloud.

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