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China Tells App Developers To Increase User Monitoring
An anonymous reader writes: The Cyberspace Administration of China has imposed new regulation for the mobile app community, requiring that developers keep a close watch over users and keep a record of their activities. However, the proposed legislation would also prevent apps from requesting unnecessary access to users' contacts, camera, microphone and other spurious installation requests. The regulator introduced the new laws in the name of cracking down on illegal use of mobile platforms for the distribution of pornography, fraud and the spread of 'malicious' content.
"We need to know immediately if anyone is criticizing the government so we can arrest them, and you will comply with this or we will arrest you and your family"
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
You must spy on your users. Except when you're not.
In the Free West, we don't need no stinking government and laws to mandate telemetry.
*sigh*
I hate it when people confuse int with double.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Gotta compensate for something?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Meanwhile, in the free west, this is handled by the free market.
And I may add I am confident that it can be done way more efficient, faster and cheaper, too!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Considering China's population problems and the shortage of women there, I'd think the government would want their citizens to get all the porn they want.
Porn is not completely banned in China, but there are restrictions. No erect penises, no exposes clitorises, etc. But if you just want some pics of naked chicks, you can find that easily.
China certainly isn't as weird about porn as Japan, where even mainstream newspapers and magazines have a few pages of nekkid chick pics, but pubic hair is banned, so the models shave it off. The result is that many boys/men look at these pictures, and think that is "normal", so Japanese women often shave off their public hair to meet that expectation. Japan also has a lot of porn that focuses on various fetishes, like foot fetishes, teen porn, and bondage rape fantasies. But no pubic hair!
I lived for several years in both China and Japan. While Chinese people have many big differences from the West, they are at least recognizably human. In Japan, I often felt I had been transported to a different planet.
A good shorthand (ahem) measure of any government / religion / organization / cult / braying mobs' extremism is their absolute obsession with other peoples' sex lives.
This post was actually written in Standard Chinese, but due to Slashdot's lack of Unicode support and simple freak chance, it came out looking just like Portuguese instead.
I have never lived in Japan but from what I understand, the shaving of hair is closely associated with prostitution (genital crabs and all) which has largely been legal throughout Japanese history. The ban of it in nude pictures reinforces the idea that these are just lowly prostitutes and not respectable women. If you know one thing about Japan is how seriously they take Social Hierarchy
pretty late /.
in the meantime the hacker has put up for sale another dataset of 9.3 million records
Just to put things in perspective: uint128_t is large enough to store the size of the Universe measured in Planck lengths.
You are right. uint128_t gives us about 38 decimal places, which gives us about 1 km in Planck-lengths. The known Universe (46 billion lightyears) would need another 23 decimal places. But with 210 bits (~63 decimal places), we should be safe.