Waves from Apple vs. FBI May Reach China [Updated]
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal court ordered Apple to help the FBI gain access to an iPhone 5c used by...
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China Passes Sweeping Anti-Terrorism Law
On December 27, China’s National People’s Congress passed the nation’s first...
China Ranked World’s Worst for Internet Freedom
China ranked last among the countries included in Freedom House’s 2015 Freedom on the Net...
“Great Cannon” Identified Behind GreatFire Attacks
Last month, the censorship monitoring and circumvention project GreatFire.org was the target of...
China Brushes Off iCloud Attack Accusations
On Monday, censorship monitor GreatFire.org reported apparent efforts to intercept Chinese Apple...
China Accused of Infiltrating Apple’s iCloud
Apple’s aggressive promotion of encryption for its devices’ internal storage has won...
Apple Hosting User Data on China-based Servers
Reuters’ Gerry Shih and Paul Carsten report that Apple has started storing data for Chinese...
Snowden Offers New China Revelations in Wired Interview
Since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked his trove of U.S. surveillance secrets last...
Will Google’s Default Search Encryption Matter in China?
Google’s global move toward encrypting search by default, which began last month, was...
Xi Jinping Vows to Turn China Into a ‘Cyberpower’
The New York Times reports on the first meeting of the newly formed Central Internet Security and...
China Seeks Quantum Codebreaking at Any Cost
Following recent Snowden revelations about the American NSA’s efforts towards quantum...
The End of Online Censorship?
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicts that universal encryption could end the very...
U.S. Urges China on Technology Standards
AP reported that the US government is continuing to discourage China from establishing government telecommunications standards: “Now, with China testing competing systems and moving toward its own standard known as TD-SCDMA U.S. policy is to urge governments in China and elsewhere to let companies choose freely. ‘I never met a carrier that didn’t express a […]
China backs down on Wi-Fi Standards (CNET news)
China agreed today to indefinitely delay implementation of government encryption standards for new wireless equipment, which would have allowed the government to decrypt personal communications over wireless networks. CNET writes: “China is softening efforts to establish its own Wi-Fi security standard and will adopt stringent new piracy prevention policies as part of a broad trade […]
Wireless security tops U.S.-China trade talks (EE Times)
“China and the United States will square off in Washington on Wednesday (April 21) for the annual U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, a forum where officials haggle over trade disputes and promote commercial agendas. For the technology community, this week’s meeting has taken on added importance in light of recent clashes between the […]
Intel: Won’t Support China’s Wi-Fi Rules (Reuters)
Reuters reported today that: “Intel Corp, the world’s largest chip maker, said on Wednesday it will not develop applications based on Chinese encryption standards for wireless computing, taking a hard line in an ongoing dispute between U.S. technology companies and China.” See full report on the Washington Post’s website.
China Is Urged to Drop Tech Rule
“WASHINGTON — In an unusual letter signed by three U.S. cabinet secretaries, the Bush administration urged China to drop a regulation that would limit the import of wireless technologies ranging from pagers to laptop computers.” … “In the letter, delivered to senior Chinese officials late Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Commerce Secretary Don […]
China Uses its Own Encryption Standards for Wireless Networks
Here is a report from Seattlepi entitled “China pushes network encryption standards” It said “China has ordered equipment makers to use the country’s own encryption standards for wireless networks, ensuring stronger government control and giving domestic manufacturers a slight respite from some foreign competition. The new rules, which took effect Monday, apply to manufacturers at […]
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