Cables Discuss Vast Hacking by a China That Fears the Web

Cables from American diplomats made public by WikiLeaks
portray Chinaā??s leadership as nearly obsessed with the
threat posed by the Internet to their grip on power ā?? and,
the reverse, by the opportunities it offered them, through
hacking, to obtain secrets stored in computers of its rivals,
especially the United States.

Extensive Chinese hacking operations, including one leveled
at Google, are a central theme in the cables. The hacking
operations began earlier and were aimed at a wider array of
American government and military data than generally known,
including attacks on computers of American diplomats
preparing positions on a climate change treaty.