Censorship in China
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Now then, that's a censorship with hooks in the very mechanisms utilized by those SMS and social media modalities which should make you shudder with the portends of that which is to come.
I do know that were I in a situation I perceived as such I would routinely turn my phone off unless calling. I would maintain silence over wifi and GPS by cracking cases of my internet things and snipping GPS antennas — likely a few others.
The care I will subsequently take in choosing phones and such will be influenced by all the horror stories I read.
Why then do we buy the bulk of our consumer electronics from China where the installation of backdoors to every device is likely routine?
When the NSA decides that passive listening with decode is no longer adequate and that it must install itself in the actual equipment as an active filter of the data path I suppose I'll just have to disconnect all of my equipment and be a lot lower tech than I am presently.
One thing is sure. My requirement for redundant firewalls just went up and my need to firewall China continues at the usual 100% of discovered networks.
Talk about overstepping goons in government. Why don't they just move to North Korea with their technogoon kinsman Mr Kill Jong-un.
Boo!