{"id":358442,"date":"2010-02-22T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23108"},"modified":"2010-02-22T23:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:59:48","slug":"u-s-pinpoints-coder-behind-google-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358442","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2010\/02\/us-pinpoints-coder-behind-google-attack\/\">Wired<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/threatlevel\/2010\/02\/picture-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links  wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google  last year, the <em>Financial Times <\/em>reported on Monday.The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the  program to a hacking forum where he described it as something he was  \u201cworking on,\u201d the paper said, quoting an unidentified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/a6f5621c-1f21-11df-9584-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1\">researcher  working for the U.S. government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spyware creator works as a freelancer and did not launch the  attack, but Chinese officials had \u201cspecial access\u201d to his programing,  the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he wants to do the research he\u2019s good at, he has to toe the line  now and again,\u201d the paper quoted the unnamed U.S. government researcher  saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would rather not have uniformed guys looking over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wired: U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking forum where he described it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}