Google's Schmidt: We were attacked by the Chinese and the NSA — RT USA

Google's Schmidt: We were attacked by the Chinese and the NSA — RT USA:

Google chairman Eric Schmidt admitted on Friday that government attacks from China and the US forced his company to enhance security protocols.

Speaking at the SXSW technology conference in Austin, Texas, Schmidt said governments around the world have realized that attempts to block internet access are futile and have moved on to other methods of control.

“You don’t turn off the Internet: you infiltrate it,” he said in a wider-ranging conversation, as quoted by the Guardian. “The new model for a dictator is to infiltrate and try to manipulate it. You’re seeing this in China, and in many other countries.”

When asked about the role of technology in terms of popular uprisings in countries like Egypt and Ukraine, Schmidt said the spread of mobile devices has allowed people to organize much more easily - but although “revolutions are going to be easier to start,” they’ll also be “harder to finish.”

 

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (AFP Photo / Manan Vatsyayana)