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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleThe End of Online Censorship?
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicts that universal encryption could end the very possibility of Chinese-style censorship or U.S.-style surveillance of the web within ten years. From...
View ArticleChina Seeks Quantum Codebreaking at Any Cost
Following recent Snowden revelations about the American NSA’s efforts towards quantum computing, South China Morning Post’s Stephen Chen reports that Beijing has ordered the development of a quantum...
View ArticleXi 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 Informatization Leading Group (中央网络安全和信息化领导小组): President Xi Jinping is presiding over a new working...
View ArticleWill Google’s Default Search Encryption Matter in China?
Google’s global move toward encrypting search by default, which began last month, was prompted by the Edward Snowden NSA leaks last summer, but Craig Timberg and Jia Lynn Yang report that it may...
View ArticleSnowden Offers New China Revelations in Wired Interview
Since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked his trove of U.S. surveillance secrets last year, some of his milder critics have argued that while uncovering domestic spying was legitimate, he...
View ArticleApple Hosting User Data on China-based Servers
Reuters’ Gerry Shih and Paul Carsten report that Apple has started storing data for Chinese users on servers within the country for the first time. The firm cites performance benefits, but the decision...
View ArticleChina Accused of Infiltrating Apple’s iCloud
Apple’s aggressive promotion of encryption for its devices’ internal storage has won praise from privacy advocates and criticism from U.S. law enforcement, met in turn with vigorous counterargument and...
View ArticleChina Brushes Off iCloud Attack Accusations
On Monday, censorship monitor GreatFire.org reported apparent efforts to intercept Chinese Apple users’ data, attributing the attacks to Chinese authorities and warning Apple that its efforts to...
View Article“Great Cannon” Identified Behind GreatFire Attacks
Last month, the censorship monitoring and circumvention project GreatFire.org was the target of two major Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), including one aimed at the code-sharing site GitHub which...
View ArticleChina Ranked World’s Worst for Internet Freedom
China ranked last among the countries included in Freedom House’s 2015 Freedom on the Net report, published this week. Globally, the report warns, Internet freedom has declined for the fifth year...
View ArticleChina Passes Sweeping Anti-Terrorism Law
On December 27, China’s National People’s Congress passed the nation’s first anti-terrorism law. Authorities began calling for counterterror legislation last May as a controversial nationwide “war on...
View ArticleWaves 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 an attacker in December’s San Bernardino shooting. In a technical analysis of the court’s demands at...
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