Source: New York Times
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People’s Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps of cyberwarriors.
Tag Archives: China
Chinese army unit is seen as tied to hacking against U.S.
February 18, 2013 – 1:17 pm
Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and Surveillance Tools
January 15, 2013 – 10:49 pm
Blue Coat Devices capable of filtering, censorship, and surveillance are being used around the world. 61 of these Blue Coat appliances are on public or government networks in countries with a history of concerns over human rights, surveillance, and censorship. Our findings support the need for national and international scrutiny of Blue Coat implementations in the countries we have identified, and a closer look at the global proliferation of “dual-use” information and communication technologies.
Google quietly removes censorship warning feature for search users in China
January 4, 2013 – 12:58 pm
Source: Tech Crunch
Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government’s internet controls.
Characterizing Large-scale Routing Anomalies: A Case Study of the China Telecom Incident
December 17, 2012 – 12:03 pm
In April 2010, China Telecom’s network announced incorrect paths to 50,000 IP prefixes, referred to as a “hijack”. The politically sensitive nature of some of the IP prefixes that were hijacked brought this incident to the attention of the US government. It raises many important questions about how we characterize and reason about large-scale routing incidents when they occur.
Google disrupted in China, once again
November 9, 2012 – 9:39 am
Source: Declan McCullagh, CNet
Google has experienced a precipitous drop in traffic from China, which a Web-monitoring group attributed to the search engine being “blocked” by the government.
China’s ‘New Manhattan’ becomes censorship capital
November 4, 2012 – 9:05 am
Source: Kathrin Hille, CNBC
A city run by one of China’s incoming political leaders that has billed itself as a future international financial center is instead becoming the country’s internet censorship capital.
Chinese Internet search players sign code of conduct
November 2, 2012 – 8:45 am
Source: Liau Yun Qing, ZD Net
Several Chinese Internet search players have come together under the lead of the Internet Society of China to sign a code of conduct which requires them to self-regulate to protect user rights.
Chinese cafe owner given 8-year sentence over online messages
November 1, 2012 – 3:29 pm
Source: Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times
The owner of an Internet cafe in southwest China was given an eight-year prison term for criticizing the ruling Communist Party in online messages and for seeking to establish an opposition party, his wife said Thursday.
From toys to TV news, jittery Beijing clamps down
November 1, 2012 – 12:34 pm
Source: Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times
A word of advice to anyone hoping to celebrate the gathering of Communist Party apparatchiks who are about to descend on the capital next week to anoint a new generation of Chinese leaders: Leave the balloons at home.
China’s access to foreign-based social networking sites still low
October 2, 2012 – 2:32 pm
Source: VOA News
A recent report that claims strong growth in Chinese Internet users’ access to Facebook and Twitter is being rebuked in China.
