Asian bloc confronts ‘net threats’ – SCMP

From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media:

A Russian and Chinese-led bloc of Asian states has said it plans to set up an expert group to boost computer security and help guard against threats to their regimes from the internet.

Suggesting the new group might tackle censorship, the six-nation Shanghai Co-operation Organisation said information communication technology could infringe on the “internal affairs of sovereign states”, bringing “serious harm to individual, social and national security”.

The group’s statement, issued following its annual summit in this Chinese city, identified no specific threats and did not specify what kinds of information communications technology it considered vulnerable. [Full text]

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