The dispute between Chinese Government and Google is
slowly assuming the nature of a ”Cyber World War” . Now Yahoo has expressed
support with Google. If Microsoft also joins the alliance with Google, it
would be like the alliance of US, UK and Russia against the Hitler’s
regime. Other companies like Adobe, CISCO etc also need to stand up and
take sides either for or against Chinese Government. This will be a
struggle which will prove if Internet has the power to support democracy
against a totalitarian government like China.
Presently China already has the source code of Windows
current versions and it is perhaps been used to develop sophisticated
viruses and trojans to attack the world. Miscrosoft should therefore
withdraw its souce code sharing offer and quickly ensure that the Windows 7
next security patch makes it secure against organized hacking from China.
More than these resistance by individual companies, if
the World has to bring down the Chinese Cyber War ambitions, it is
necessary for ICANN to step in. A resolution must be passed in ICANN to
isolate China from the Internet so that they cannot despatch their viruses
to the Internet nor receive stolen data from outside China. For this
purpose, all ISPs in China should be delinked from the DNS systems. This
Internet embargo will hurt China economically. However the purpose of this
embargo is more to ensure that the world is safe from the evil designs of
China than to hurt it economically.
If this strategy succeeds in making a more law abiding
nation, then Internet would have fulfilled its promise of ushering in a
global democratic society against the threats of Governments like China or
Burma.
