Google is reconsidering its censorship of their China results at Google.cn. In mid-December, Google China suffered sophisticated cyber attacks, which resulted in the theft of Google IP and granted limited access to some gmail accounts both in China and internationally. The accounts are all said to be related to human rights activists. They subtly infer that the Chinese Government is behind these attacks.

Google is now going to stop censoring their results, and it is up to the Chinese Government to determine if they can continue operating in China or not.

I am confused though - how does turning off their censorship make them more secure? The two things seem unrelated, one argument is security, one is censorship.

Adobe has publicly stated it has been similarly attacked, but I don't hear them saying they will pull out of China.

Could it be that Google can't handle not being the biggest player in it's field, and that without full power and support of the Government it refuses to play at all?