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China Mandates Wi-Fi Hotspot Traffic Monitoring
hypnosec writes with an article on tightening censorship in China. From the article: "Officials in China warned businesses in the capital city to install web surveillance technology to monitor their traffic or they may have to face hefty fine or closure. ... It seems that the step to intensify web censorship in the country has left businesses with no other choice but to stop providing WiFi services.."
If there's one thing that can keep the US hanging on to our advantages over China, it's China doing whatever its mafia government can to keep its people down and divided.
We've certainly got enough of our own action along those lines. But China is far more ruthless and stupid about it, giving the us a relative advantage. Go China!
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make install -not war
China wants the hot spot operators to keep the logs, the U.S. government wants the ISP's to do the same thing. Where is the outrage?
And the key policy of government is always the protection of government. By happy chance sometimes this coincides with the well being of the state, but not always. The individual is a thing, a statistic. A life to be spent in a war, a vote, a source of wealth and production or a problem and a source of unrest. Welcome to real politics. But YOU don't matter. There are plenty of others just like you.
At least they are honest and upfront about it. I can imagine some countries would rather do all the snooping behind peoples back.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Right now it's easy to dismiss this as a Chinese oppression thing. But how long until this spreads to the "free" countries too. Many are already passing laws mandating logging and monitoring at the ISP level. It's only a matter of time before this filters down to hotspots too.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Drop everything you're doing and comply, because we have the guns.
The framers of the U.S. constitution recognized this and specifically protected the people's right to use four "boxes" against the government:
To what extent does the People's Republic of China protect the same rights?
A convenient item of trite cynicism; but not actually true.
Force is expensive. States that invest in it in excess collapse under their own weight. Voluntary compliance, whether produced by patriotism, fear of the state, love of order, material benefit, fear of chaos, hatred of some other or other, or some combination of these, is cheap. In addition, you(for the moment) need gunmen to wield the guns for you. At a bare minimum, the gunmen must fear one another more than they hate you, and that isn't all that stable in the long term. To really last, you need enough loyalists(or at least well-paid mercenaries) to induce fear in everybody else. And that is the bare minimum case.
Guns certainly have their uses, in pruning deviants who will not be brought to heel by more delicate means of suasion; but(barring the rise of reasonably strong AIs and robots) simply aren't enough to maintain one's grip. At a bare minimum, the bystanders must be cowed by the fear that the next chap to be shot might be them. More usually, a state whose situation is actually stable will be cheered by the majority as it applies force to deviants.
Rousseau was absurdly wrong about a lot of things; but his statement that "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty." hits pretty close to the mark, per unit length.
The Dongcheng Public Security Bureau did not respond to requests for comment on Monday, but according to its publicly issued circular, the measure is designed to thwart criminals who use the Internet to “conduct blackmail, traffic goods, gamble, propagate damaging information and spread computer viruses.” Such nefarious activity, the notice says, “not only hurts the interests of the country and the masses, but has also caused some businesses to suffer economic losses.”
the measure is designed to thwart citizens who use the Internet to “propagate damaging information that could piss them off and threaten our cushy party jobs and lives.” Such nefarious activity, the notice says, “not only hurts the interests of the country's ruling party party members, but has also caused some of them and their families and cabals to suffer economic losses.”
There. No need to use Babelfish
Seriously, they may keep a lid on dissent for a while, but when it starts, look out.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
I've got to hand it to the Chinese. At least they are up front about sniffing Internet traffic and tracking users.
Have gnu, will travel.
You're missing the point. TFA is talking about public hotspots. Imagine walking into Starbucks and having to hand over your driver's license before you can connect your laptop to their AP.
monitoring Chinese citizens in cafes, and so little put into monitoring Chinese baby formula manufacturers.
The real goal.
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Australia tomorrow.
Other slogans:
China, leading Australia
China, Australia's future today.
China has a habit of shooting people who do things like let nasty chemicals end up in baby formula.
Here in the US, we let them shrug their shoulders, say, "My bad, guys!" and go on like nothing whatsofuckingever happened.
But hey, whatever xenophobic bullshit makes you sleep better at night, I guess.
Going along with that, I seem to remember an article saying that china spends more on internal security than its military. As more people become ... informed (? not sure of the right word) of the possibilities for political freedoms others enjoy, they're going to have to up that if they want to maintain an iron grip. That can't be too sustainable in the long-run. There's a LOT of people to suppress.
-Bucky