Hard disks sold in Taiwan contained trojan horse programs. The Taipei Times reports:
Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.
Around 1,800 [...]
November 25th 2007
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Yahoo has reportedly settled the law suits brought forward on behalf of Chinese citizen’s who were convicted in China with evidence provided by Yahoo playing a part in their conviction.
The World Organization for Human Rights (WOHR) USA, which brought the case on behalf of Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, said Yahoo had agreed to the [...]
November 14th 2007
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Asia Times Online has an interesting article on the ‘Saffron Revolution’:
In fact the US State Department admits to supporting the activities of the NED in Myanmar. The NED is a US government-funded “private” entity whose activities are designed to support US foreign policy objectives, doing today what the CIA did during the Cold War. As [...]
October 20th 2007
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I thought it might shift.
Censor’s grip tightening on Internet in China
October 11th 2007
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CS Monitor reports:
The software companies involved sell this technology primarily to private companies in the US and abroad. Companies use these tools to keep employees from accessing pornography sites and websites infected with viruses.
Repressive governments also turn to these American systems, not only to filter out porn and viruses, but also to block political, religious, [...]
October 11th 2007
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