China spies on Aussie leader Rudd
p2pnet news view Politics | Security:- Here’s a choice bit of irony.
The Australian government is trying desperately to take a page out of Communist China’s book by trying to impose China-style censorship on its citizens.
And yet the Oz ignoble leader Kevin Rudd is reportedly upset because when he recently visited China (for a few tips, maybe?) Chinese spies repeatedly tried to, “infiltrate prime ministerial email and mobile phone communications,” says The Australian, going on »»»
“The Australian understands Mr Rudd and his travelling party were under constant cyber attack during his latest trip to China, in August last year, with authorities trying to access the laptop computers and mobile phones used by the Australians.”
The blatant nature of Beijing’s electronic espionage is understood to have alarmed the Rudd Government and led to a further tightening of communications security procedures for senior government figures travelling to China.
Intelligence sources said Beijing had also made repeated attempts to break into government and business IT networks, as well as foreign embassies based in Canberra.
Last week, the Government blocked Chinese-owned Minmetals from acquiring the Prominent Hill mine in South Australia as part of its $2.6billion bid for OZ Minerals, citing national security concerns because of its proximity to the Woomera weapons testing range.
Security experts, “observe that Australian government defence and security agencies are also a prime target for Beijing’s cyber espionage because of the closeness of the US alliance and the extremely close defence partnership with Washington,” says the story, adding:
“Since 2001, Australian military and intelligence co-operation with the US has grown closer than ever and Australian agencies are gaining unprecedented access to US defence planning.”
China-style censorship – Australian censor plan a ‘dead parrot’, March 24, 2009
The Australian – Chinese spies target PM Kevin Rudd’s email, Aprilm3, 2009
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April 6th, 2009 at 11:51 am
The chinese governement is a piece of shit that should be obliterated.