China/CCP continues its stupidity...

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Starseeker

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8094026.stm

China's computers at hacking risk

Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by malicious hackers because of flaws in compulsory government software.

The potential faults were brought to light by Chinese computer experts who said the flaw could lead to a "large-scale disaster".

The Chinese government has mandated that all computers in the country must have the screening software installed.

It is intended to filter out offensive material from the net.
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But..

"We found a series of software flaws," explained Isaac Mao, a blogger and social entrepreneur in China, as well as a research fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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"Then you have every computer in China potentially as part of a botnet," Colin Maclay, also of Harvard, told BBC News.
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And the hilarity ensues...

For example, the system reportedly blocks legitimate as well as banned content. For example, it designed to identify the proportion of skin colour in a picture to determine whether it is pornography.

But comments on a bulletin board run by the software company that designed the system, suggest the system does not work perfectly.

"I went on the internet to check out some animal photos. A lovely little naked pig was sent onto the black list. Pitiful little pig!," read one comment.

"I was curious, so I looked up some photos of naked African women. Oh, they were not censored!"

Another message read: "We were ordered to install the software. So I have to come to this website and curse. After we installed the software, many normal websites are banned."
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:clap:

Go read the entire thing on BBC.

Is the CCP's top dogs at the PLA and propaganda department that computer illiterate that they let a over protected Chinese "software" company string along into oblivion again? This sounds like the WSJ/Dow Jones s financial news fight all over again...

Hmmm..., if the legions of Chinese computers all weave into one giant bot net..., the Hive, anyone? :lol:
 
now now now, Starseeker... the party knows best. ;)

i love how many good programmers come from china (see the NSA contest), yet they send data to & from their censorship servers unencrypted. hah. lovely.
 
For example, the system reportedly blocks legitimate as well as banned content. For example, it designed to identify the proportion of skin colour in a picture to determine whether it is pornography.

"I was curious, so I looked up some photos of naked African women. Oh, they were not censored!"
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:lol: ... racist censorship software :ugly:
 
Colin Maclay said:
Then you have every computer in China potentially as part of a botnet
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Who cares, they're all Commodore's 64 anyway...






...they're not? When did it happen?

PS. "Isaac Mao" sounds like a Jewish Communist conspirator alias :D
 
LOL, only China can reverse engineer something and stop it from working. Someone from XingHua or the PLA's propaganda must feel really stupid now.
 
Apparently china doesn't understand the nature of information technology used on a mass scale. They are pretty much behind everyone else because of their restricted access, and cannot discern the whole culture and physics of the internet.

Free flowing information available to everyone, and communists are preventing it from happening.

Marx has turned over in his grave again.


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And yeah, china is turning into the Hive

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlPr2KHSFo[/youtube]
 
China IT sector is pathetic compared to India and they know it.

Restricted flowing of information really damaged the progress of IT sector in China. The government still doesn't trust the maturity of the Chinese people in using internet....which is bad.
 
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