Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/02/irkeshtam-malware.html
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Does anyone else remember when the information-disseminating powers of technology were totally going to inevitably liberalize China?
It makes me feel so old.
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Remember when everyone’s USENET .sig file had this quote in it? “The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it!”
I mean, it’s a hell of a quote, and as a wide-eyed teenage netizen I remember thinking it had some profound wisdom, but looking back I can’t for the life of me understand why I ever believed it. There are no secret phone lines going into my house that the gummint doesn’t know about, and there sure as heck aren’t any long-forgotten fiberoptic trunk cables going into China you can “route around” with.
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I am thinking that would be a great app to reverse engineer to see measure and document its scope, using Collective Counterintelligence, and then return some garbage data/salt using Defensive Counterintelligence to keep the Chinese Government on edge. Bonus points if you can convince the government that a revolution is imminent and is being lead by their (deceased) former heads of state.
I am sure that firewall vendors within western countries would love to capture, fingerprint, and neutralize these threats in the wild.
This is precisely the reason I want to see smartphone vendors incorporate VMs onto their software ecosystem, so that all I/O can be monitored and filtered to user dictates.
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Wonder what they do when you show up without a smartphone.
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MORE RELEVANT QUOTE:
Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it;
so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late – Jonathan Swift
the internet interprets facts as damage and routes around them
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Thanks for that.
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Are you sure this is an anti-Uigher surveillance app? It looks more pro surveillance to me.
Well to be fair they’re helping keep Hong Kong liberal - those protests are aided by communications tech like Signal
Hmmmmm…
More like they are fighting a rearguard action against the inevitability of China absorbing the two systems and rendering them one.
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