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China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-one-way-to-get-what-you-want dept.

Ant writes "A CommsDesign article reports that China walked out of a wireless standards meeting this week, accusing the International Organization for Standardization of favoring the IEEE's 802.11i ANSI-certified wireless LAN security scheme over its own controverisal proposal, EE Times has learned. The gambit came after China's Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) security scheme was withdrawn and placed on a slower track by the ISO." From the article: "China initially agreed last year to refrain from making its WAPI security scheme mandatory for wireless LAN equipment in China. It then approached ISO with a fast-track submission in an effort to make WAPI an international security standard."

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  1. Re:Can't fault China... by rokzy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    yes, and the US has been doing it since, well, forever.

    some treaty or law in your way? just take unilateral action!

  2. Re:Can't fault China... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And you don't think an international court (international in the same way as the UN, which is run by the arabs) would drag every single US soldier who killed an arab to the court. With a little bit of aid from the french, they'd probably succeed too.

  3. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You mean a lot of improvised inventions taken using existing 1st world technology with a dash of industrial espionage.

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  4. Re:Privacy under communism? by rokzy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    no, it isn't "sort of oxymoronic". but you *are*
    moronic in terms of your understanding of communism.

  5. Re:Can't fault China... by ADRA · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So what you're saying is that Americans can commit genocide, invade anyone without cause, kill innocent children and somehow it isn't an international problem?

    Please do me a favor and read the charter before you spout off about how its eroding your rights.

    http://www.icc-cpi.int/library/about/officialjou rn al/Rome_Statute_120704-EN.pdf

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  6. Re:China Walks Out by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    And I've met some mainland Americans who are very proud, in a nationalist sense, of their country. Perhaps a little too much so for my comfort.

    We're all the same, baby.

    You and I may have descended from apes, but I will not hear one word that the neo-cons have ... they're evolving back into baboons.

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  7. Re:China isn't really a communist country by L1nux_L0ser83 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you must be a liberal democrat huh? figures

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