[IP] re: China Tightens Its Restrictions for News Media on the Internet
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 27, 2005 4:56:27 AM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: China Tightens Its Restrictions for News
Media on the Internet
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[Note: This comment comes from reader Steve Schear. DLH]
From: Steve Schear <s.schear@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 26, 2005 5:10:30 PM PDT
To: dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] China Tightens Its Restrictions for
News Media on the Internet
At 08:40 AM 9/26/2005, Dewayne Hendricks wrote:
From the New York Times -- <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/
international/asia/26china.html?
ex=1285387200&en=38ac65b7be2e2b9b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss>
China Tightens Its Restrictions for News Media on the Internet
By JOSEPH KAHN
BEIJING, Sept. 25 - China on Sunday imposed more restrictions
intended to limit the news and other information available to
Internet users, and it sharply restricted the scope of content
permitted on Web sites.
The rules also state that private individuals or groups must
register as "news organizations" before they can operate e-mail
distribution lists that spread news or commentary. Few individuals
or private organizations are likely to be allowed to register as
news organizations, meaning they can no longer legally distribute
information by e-mail.
Interestingly, Skype users seem not to have been affected, yet.
Although there is no built-in support for list distribution in
Skype the API is pretty flexible and if its not now available from
3rd parties it soon could be if desired.
Skype uses end-to-end AES crypto and key generation and according
to an independent security expert who has been reviewing their code
and architecture does not have provisions for any simple means of
surveillance (e.g., MITM attacks or pen registers for traffic
analysis).
Steve
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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