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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barack obama" data-source="post: 6756619" data-attributes="member: 106093"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100219/i/r1434479590.jpg?x=213&y=140&xc=1&yc=1&wc=409&hc=269&q=85&sig=DNjmHLTN640X17z2kLQvsQ--" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Report: Hackers attacked Google from China schoolsSAN FRANCISCO – The Internet attacks that may end up driving Google Inc.  out of China originated from two  prominent schools in the country, according to a story published late  Thursday.                 The New  York Times reported security investigators have traced the  hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School  in China. The newspaper attributed the information to unnamed people  involved in the investigation.                 Google didn't immediately respond to requests for  comment.                 The company revealed on Jan. 12 that digital thieves  had stolen some of its computer code and tried to break into the  accounts of human rights  activists opposed to China's policies. The sophisticated theft  also targeted the computers of more than 30 other companies, according  to security experts. A security weakness in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet  Explorer Web browser is believed to have created an opening for the  hackers.                 The digital assault was serious enough to prompt  Google to confront China's government about censorship rules that weed  out politically and culturally sensitive topics from search results in  the country. Google says it's prepared to shut down its China-based  search engine and possibly shut down all of its offices in the country  unless the ruling party  loosens its restrictions on free speech.                 Google and the government are still discussing a  possible compromise.                 The threat to leave China triggered speculation that  Google suspected the country's government might have been involved in  the computer attacks. Google has only said it believes the attack  originated from within China.                 China's government has denied any involvement while  continuing to insist publicly that Google must obey its restrictions  against showing links deemed to be subversive or pornographic.                 The  National Security Agency and other specialists in digital  forensics have been trying to identify the source of the attacks against  Google and the other companies for weeks. The inquiry led to computers  at the two schools, with some evidence suggesting the attacks may have  started 10 months ago, the Times reported.                 Jiaotong  University boasts one of China's top computer science programs, according to  the Times' story. Lanxiang is a large vocational school that trains some computer scientists for  the Chinese military, the Times said.                 Spokesmen for the two schools told the Times that  they hadn't heard U.S. investigators had implicated them in the attacks.<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100219/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_china;_ylt=Aoz8gCfyGrzP546_udRVlHfgtY54" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100219/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_china;_ylt=Aoz8gCfyGrzP546_udRVlHfgtY54</a></blockquote>

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