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Helping Other Big Brothers Go High Tech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-your-enemies-closer dept.

Dino writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting article about the export of high-tech equipment to China's security forces, and the dilemma that it creates. On the one hand, there is the desire to increase exports to a country with which there is a trade imbalance. On the other hand, we face a situation in which the technology can be used to track dissidents and unauthorized religions. Restrictions have been enacted since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre to prevent exports intended to the Chinese security forces. However, the restrictions have been applied narrowly, and effectively prevent only low-tech exports such as handcuffs, helmets, fingerprint powder, and tear gas, while DB software, two-way radios, DNA analysis gear, and video probes, are allowed."

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  1. THEY NEED THAT DNA ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT by CmdrTaco+(troll) · · Score: 5, Funny

    They need to make sure blood on the bullet matches up so they don't bill the wrong family.

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    I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
    1. Re:THEY NEED THAT DNA ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT by markana · · Score: 2, Funny

      I though it was so they could match the transplant patients to the correct pris^h^h^h^h donor....

      For what those people are payng, they want the best match possible.

  2. Video Probe?! by lawpoop · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope I'm not randomly selected at the airport to be searched with a video probe!

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    Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
    -- Pablo Picasso
  3. Re:Unauthorized Religions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "These are not fruitcake organizations that you find in the United States"

    One can only hope that the wonderful American tolerence shines through to China.