Google's Sergey Brin Talks Hacking: Chinese Human Rights Activists Targeted

Sergey Brin of Google sat down with TED to talk about the recent revelations about the broad, sophisticated attacks the company has been battling from Chinese sources, and what that struggle means for Google's future in China. In the process, he reveals a few little tidbits of information--and explains why he's not interested in figuring out if the Chinese government is behind the attacks.

Brin starts off by stating the primary goal of the hackers, which wasn't entirely clear before: to gain...