The Connection Between Google's Chinese Cyber Attackers and the U.S. Govt.

Here's one for the conspiracy theorists among you (you know who you are...and so do the guys in the van out front): That Chinese cyberattack late in 2009, targeting Google and other big names, was enabled by U.S. warrantless search legislation.

This is a classic case of wrong-headed government thinking, designed to supposedly boost public safety, resulting in genuine disaster: The crack through which Chinese cyberattacks broke into Google last year, causing no end of ongoing trouble, was...