Unmasking an “Internet criminal” with the real-name registration system. (Guangming Daily)

Central Propaganda Department: In the near future, Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, and other central media outlets will successively report typical cases of threats to Internet safety and infringement on citizens’ personal information. All media and websites are kindly asked to republish these documents in their entirety. Do not modify titles or content. Do not voluntarily collect reports and commentary related to Internet safety management, especially those voices which challenge Internet safety management. (December 19, 2012)中宣部：近期新华社、人民日报等中央媒体陆续刊播危害网络安全侵犯公民个人信息的典型案例，请各级媒体和网站全文转载，不改动标题内容，不自行组织有关涉网络安全管理的报道评论，尤其是刊播质疑网络管理的声音。

Central Propaganda Department: Do not sensationalize the issue of insufficient funds for pensions in urban areas reported in the Academy of Social Sciences China Pension Report 2012. (December 19, 2012)

中宣部：不炒作中国社科院《中国养老金发展报告2012》中有关城镇职工养老金收不抵支的问题。

Central Propaganda Department: All media outlets are asked to prominently carry “Internet a Major Disaster Zone for Leakage of Private Information” from the People’s Daily and “Punish Internet Criminals, Strengthen Online Information Protection and Management” from Xinhua’s “Letter from a Journalist” series. (December 19, 2012)

中宣部：请各媒体20日在重要版面转载人民日报《个人信息泄露，网络是重灾区》和新华社“记者来信”的《惩治网络违法犯罪，依法加强网络信息保护和管理》两篇稿件。

These censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to those instructions as “Directives from the Ministry of Truth.” CDT has collected the selections we translate here from a variety of sources and has checked them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation.

Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The original publication date is noted after the directives; the date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and China’s Defense Minister Liang Guanglie on Monday struck a positive note at a joint press conference at the Pentagon, announcing a joint counter-piracy naval exercise in the Gulf of Aden later this year and tentative plans to cooperate in the sensitive realm of cyber security.

Liang’s trip marked the first visit by a Chinese defense minister to Washington in nine years and US defense officals were anxious to avoid any mention of blind rights campaigner Chen Guangcheng.

Chen “didn’t come up” in the talks and officials had said beforehand that his fate was a subject for US diplomats at the State Department, not the Pentagon.

The dissident dramatically escaped house arrest and took refuge at the US embassy in Beijing on April 26, creating a dilemma for both governments just days before the arrival of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Although the two countries have agreed to work together, some officials are worried because the most often cited source of cyber attacks is from China. According the the Voice of America, Liang has denied these claims:

Liang, a general in the People’s Liberation Army, said that there is no evidence directly linking cyber attacks in the United States to China. He said that in his talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the secretary agreed that all of the attacks could not be attributed to China.

Liang said that during their talks Monday, he and Panetta discussed ways to strengthen cyber security, but added that they would leave the details of that effort for experts to work out.

President Barack Obama has cited cyber security as one of the most serious economic and national security challenges facing the United States. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Sino-American cooperation is crucial.

“Because the United States and China have developed technological capabilities in this arena, it’s extremely important that we work together to develop ways to avoid any miscalculation or misperception that could lead to crisis in this area,” said Panetta.

Liang’s visit has been the first visit by a Chinese defense minister since 2003.

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The 25-year-old programmer who unleashed the Panda worm almost a year ago in China was sentenced today to four years in prison, a news service reported from Beijing.

Li Jun, arrested in February and charged last month with making approximately $13,000 selling the worm — dubbed both “Fujacks” and “Panda Burning Joss Sticks” — was given a four-year jail term by a court in Xiantao, China. Three other men — all in their 20s, according to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) wire service — were sentenced to between one year and two and a half years for their part in spreading the worm.
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