Martin Virtual's List: Internet Privacy Guide

• it’s a little strange to tie free trade to human rights issues, it is basically getting down to interference in internal affairs.
• he adoption of advanced information and communication technology to strengthen central police control, responsiveness, and crime combating capacity, so as to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of police work." (28)
• RMB 600 million (US$70 million)

  • report 2001

  • report 2001
• Access Control, Anti-Hacker Intrusion, Communication Security, Computer Accessories & Software, Decryption & Encryption, E-commerce Security, Extranet & Intranet Security, Firewalls, Networking Communications, Network Security & Management, Operation Safety, Smartcard Security, System Security, Virus Detection, IT-related Services and Others." (29)
• see," to "hear," and to "think."
• speech signal processing. Similarly, video signal processing lies behind a surveillance camera’s ability to "see," that is, to recognize individual faces in a crowd of people. Both "senses," forms of digital signal processing (DSP), are termed "algorithmic surveillance" systems, which is data analysis via complex algorithms modeled on the human nervous system
• Department of Electronic Engineering at the prestigious Tsinghua University. A research group there has been working on speech recognition since the early 1980s. This research is financially supported by both the Chinese government and Nortel Networks (from 1995 to 1998). (30) It parallels Nortel’s own speech recognition research in association with the FBI.
• 863 Project was initiated in March 1986 as China’s response to the Reagan Administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative/"Star Wars.
• e-mail filtration system" that is able to detect and delete "unwanted" e-mails without the recipient’s knowledge or consent. (45) Most recently, the MPS has been involved in creating fake proxy servers to conduct surveillance of surfers who try to circumvent official firewalls. (46)

  • could GTunnel and FirePhoenix be such fake proxies

• redistributing the "Great Firewall" from five international gateways to millions of household PCs and cellular phones.

    

  This strategy has profound implications in terms of user privacy – since it makes government surveillance of an individual’s traffic a reality, and incorporates technologies that impact heavily on Chinese Internet users right to free expression, making it much more difficult for human rights and democracy activists to communicate with "illegal" information sources, and remain undetected by their government.
• identify individual subscribers when they log on, matching names to IP addresses, and learning over time what content interests the subscriber
• Service providers use identity verification in order to validate users requesting access to their networks. The authentication mechanisms will take many forms. Authentication mechanisms include, but are not limited to, user name and password, smart cards, and biometric devices such as fingerprint scanners or face recognition systems.
• Filtering is administered through a proxy in which an individual’s Web requests are sent to a proxy server which checks requests against a list of "denied" URLs and blocks any incoming content from those URLs not meeting the Chinese government’s predetermined criteria for "wholesome" Web content. The Shasta 5000 BSN has the ability to support just such proxy services through its redirection capability to such content filtering server sites. Through the Shasta 5000 BSN policy-forwarding capability, rules can be established to forward the subscriber traffic to content filtering servers, which then do the filtering on behalf of the government.
• the practice of using proxy servers situated outside of China, currently prevalent among dissidents as a means of circumventing firewalls at the gateway level, will be much easier to detect and log – generating a pattern of use that will, over time, appear suspicious to the network.

  • so don't use TOR!!!
• local MPS bureaus will be much more involved
• n China, as in every country around the world, human rights activists find themselves on the frontline of a new struggle to ensure that technological innovation works in favour of freedom and democracy and not for more and more subtle and sophisticated forms of repression.
• Technology is changing the equations of power, challenging the conventional channels of communication, distributing and disseminating influence in the broadest possible fashion, to the point of democratizing the channels and getting rid of the gatekeeper… technology has a mind-boggling potential to break through barriers and overcome political obstacles to educate, inform and be an agent of political change… the mouse is mightier than the missile."

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• hei-ke" literally means, "black guest," and "hong-ke" literally means "red guest." The red hackers proposed "honker" for their "authentic" English translation of "hong-ke."

  • White Hat - ?
    Black Hat - hei-ke
    Red Hat - hong-ke -->revolutionaries not criminals
    --> Blue Hat - US (e.g. poison b00x)
    
    see thedarkvisitor.com