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China is force-installing spyware onto Muslim citizens' phones
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baxter2231
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Trump like "Why didnt I think of that ! Oh wait I did China stole it, Chinaaaaa !"
Dragoon En Regalia
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Really, it's just getting too easy for the PRC to target the privacy and well-being of a minority region and its people via WeChat and the other few large networks consolidating in China. And I'm not surprised Jinping's administration is focusing on this, since it's one way to test-pilot similar campaigns and lockdown on China Proper.
China's been discriminating against their Muslim citizens way before Trump even announced his candidacy. This is an ignorant comment.
AlexFlame116
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But being a Muslim doesn't automatically mean being a terrorist! Anyone can be a terrorist if they murder and harm innocents for political aim!
Why don't people understand this?
Why don't people understand this?
TimeEffect
Member
Man that is messed up. What a waste of everyones time and resources
Messofanego
Banned
Other countries are probably pretty jealous they didn't come up with this first.
Why don't people use logic and common sense? Probably doesn't fit their agenda.
If it's just checking the md5, seems pretty easy to circumvent by just having a program to transmit those images between users that modifies them just a tiny bit before storing them in the phone, thus altering the md5 of the final image/document.
Plus nowadays it's pretty easy to create md5 collisions, which someone could do just to keep triggering false alarms.
Plus nowadays it's pretty easy to create md5 collisions, which someone could do just to keep triggering false alarms.
Codeacious
Banned
Couldn't actual terrorists just have a backup phone with the app installed, and just use that for the spot checks?
There are dozens of ways to make this surveillance effort useless.
This has nothing to do with West's attitudes on Muslims. This is more to do with Xinjiang being an ethnically and culturally different area that has been at odds with China for centuries but has been incorporated into China by gunpoint. As a result there is a lot of unrest and terrorism goes along with that.
The political situation in Xinjiang isn't really the same thing as in the West's affairs with Muslims. The Uyghur are in a similar position as Tibet.
AlexFlame116
Member
Oh dang. Whoa...
I really should research more before opening my mouth sorry.
Yea.
Independence will never occur for East Turkestan/Xinjiang or Tibet.
China is way too powerful for that to ever occur now.
No need for apologies, the overall sentiment of your original post is still accurate.
They do have access to pretty much any data a chinese company logs, so kind of.
JonnyDBrit
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To add to this, and answer Kinitari's post above, Xinjiang is a combination of landlocked desert and mountains. It's one of China's poorest regions, and areas where a Han population isn't as prevalent get the even shorter end of the stick. So not exactly the most viable position in which to try and find a way out of the country, at least legally. Add in the classic caveat of it providing numerous raw resources - including yes, oil - and the Chinese government's grip on the region is going to remain strong, and there's not much that can be done about it.
The Hui who are ethnically Chinese Muslims, are treated very differently by Chinese authorities. So this isn't strictly about Islam.
Shadowhelper
Banned
You assumed China jails everyone if they don't install a spying app on their phone? Nope, that's just for this oppressed minority.
It has nothing to do with terrorism. Just Chinas obsession with spying and control. This is a group of people who they strip of land and resources, and when land is stolen protests happen, this frightens China.
The UN and wold community need to raise the issue, because that is the only thing that really keeps China even a little bit in check.
V
Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
A few other countries have probably already thought of it and we just don't know it.
Yeah, like others have said, this is a part of China that it's government rules by an iron fist.
It's shit but this is China.
China is hard at work on facial recognition surveillance and its big brother "citizen" score is live. You want to know how to repress people in the 21st century then China is the professor of a 500 level course on it.
It's shit but this is China.
China is hard at work on facial recognition surveillance and its big brother "citizen" score is live. You want to know how to repress people in the 21st century then China is the professor of a 500 level course on it.
Mr. Giggles
Member
What the fuck China.
Just delusional liberals. The right wingers look up to Russia.
No, I assumed China installed spyware onto every citizens phone, at either a factory level or just pushed out by carriers.
And some people here would prefer that people in foreign countries continue to get bombed to eternity i guess, because who care, they're foreign.
Or overturn elected governments to install dictatorships.
Or spy all the rest of the world , muslims or not.
US best!!!111!ONEONE11!!1!
Gaz Pwnage
Member
MD5? Cause that's totally secure and unexploitable. So many things wrong with this.
The MD5 thing is nothing short of stupid, you can easily change a bit in a file...
How to find a positive aspect to this? Improvement in cell batteries? Because I can see this draining batteries fast
How to find a positive aspect to this? Improvement in cell batteries? Because I can see this draining batteries fast
Honest people don't have anything to fear from this. (/s)
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Oh come on, no one in China doesn't have WeChat.
Funyarinpa
Member
I hate the Chinese government more and more each passing day. Jesus fuck. Shit almost makes me glad I'm in Turkey, and that's saying something.
Pff, they had less than 900 million users in China according to the last report. And considering it's Western China...
jellies_two
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Anyone admiring the Chinese economy or society should be forced to take a course in just how much Orwellian surveillance there is to stop any meaningful opposition ever coalescing.
None of the huge Chinese tech companies are able to operate without giving the government whatever they want whenever they want it.
None of the huge Chinese tech companies are able to operate without giving the government whatever they want whenever they want it.
Jill Sandwich
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