Reports: China steps up surveillance, targeting mobile phone messaging

Reports: China steps up surveillance, targeting mobile phone messaging
Elaine Kurtenbach, The Associated Press 2004-07-02

Chinese authorities plan to employ new technology to improve surveillance of mobile phone messages amid efforts to intensify the policing of private communications, reports said Friday.

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Reports: China steps up surveillance, targeting mobile phone messaging 2004-07-04
wfrazee

Has anoyne else forgotten that in a decade or so, china will be hosting the olympic games? THIS is the country we want to be going to in order to watch this competition?

I am not sure what is the more laughable scenario, they get this system into place and it goes berserk with the influx of "dir...

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Adaptation to technology 2004-07-05
bl0rf

Because everything is "Made in China" we forget that the People's Republic of China is a hardline communist government. It is interesting to note how a regime based on eliminating its political enemies deals, and will deal with technological advances. I think that many interesting hi-tech surveillan...

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Reports: China steps up surveillance, targeting mobile phone messaging 2004-07-06
Anonymous

If there was ever a country that needed personal encryption, China is it. Someone over there needs to come up with PGP for the masses....

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