Google is threatening to pull out of China based on a recent attack by amateurs. It seems like amateurs have a lot more luck hacking these big nodes, given the story we read about mafiaboy.

Where governments pose restrictions, companies are finding ways to help people circumvent them. Apparently, business is booming for people wanting to use firewalls to get around their countries censorship. Even when the blocks get blocked, new ways continue to pop up.

Following Google's recent announcement that the company would "review" its business operations in China, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will address the issue of Internet freedom in a speech Thursday in Washington D.C. Alec Ross is Clinton's senior adviser for innovation. He tells Renee Montagne that companies like Google shouldn't have to worry about cyber attacks.

China has unveiled the first official rule on the use of virtual currency in the trade of real goods and services to limit its possible impact on the real financial system. http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/newsrelease/commonnews/200906/2009...