The other day I told you that the Chinese government was accused of initiating a MITM attack against iCloud servers, but also those of the Microsoft company that host the Live.com system. Although the Chinese government did not officially recognize the accusations, Tim Cook flew to China to try to solve the problem and met with the country's deputy prime minister to discuss the problems generated by the attempted theft of iCloud users' usernames and passwords.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook discussed user data security at a meeting on Wednesday with a top Chinese government official in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency reported. At a meeting on Wednesday in Zhongnanhai, the Beijing complex housing China's central government, Cook and Vice Premier Ma Kai exchanged views on "protection of users' information" as well as "strengthening cooperation and in information and communication fields," according to Xinhua.
According to Reuters, Tim Cook discussed with Deputy Prime Minister Ma Kai about the ways in which users' personal information can be protected, but also about how cooperation between the company and the government can be improved. Of course, no one knows exactly what agreement the two have reached, but the Apple company has already started to redirect iCloud users to other servers in order to protect them against attacks initiated by the government.
Even if China does not officially recognize that it tried to steal passwords and usernames of iCloud users, the fact that Tim Cook flew to China to talk to the deputy prime minister about this problem confirms the identity of the attacker.
