https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2025-11-10T12:13:53+00:00 https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/the-three-body-problem-the-imperative-of-survival-and-the-misogyny-of-reactionary-rhetoric/ jm It has become clear that the narrative structure of the Three-Bodies series, just like the gongye dang techno-nationalist discourse, is masculinist and misogynistic. Liu explicitly depicts human society under deterrence peace as ‘feminised’, noting the physical as well as mental feminisation of the ‘new era’ men. The qualities conventionally associated with femininity, such as love, compassion, and moral sentiments, are blamed for the extinction of human civilisation, whereas qualities associated with masculinity, such as rationality, determination, and aggression, are framed as key to civilisational survival. The reactionary rhetoric adopts a similar strategy, which is not only evidently anti-feminist, but also feminises social justice issues ‘as a prelude to devaluing and subduing them’ (Kaul 2021: 1624). By labelling anyone with any concerns about human rights or equality a shengmu, this rhetoric constructs certain ideas and political agendas as feminine as a way of delegitimating them: they are either hopelessly idealistic or dangerously undermine stability, growth, and ‘national interests’. ]]> literature review gender scifi misogyny books culture three-body-problem liu-cixin woke china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:02628640eb62/ 2025-07-01T11:41:23+00:00 https://archive.ph/kXAwb#selection-1317.0-1343.149 jmAI has lately given China’s open-source movement a further boost. Chinese companies, and the government, see open models as the quickest way to narrow the gap with America. DeepSeek’s models have generated the most interest, but Qwen, developed by Alibaba, is also highly rated, and Baidu has said it will soon open up the model behind its Ernie chatbot. China’s enthusiasm for open technology is also extending to hardware. Unitree, a robotics startup based in Hangzhou, has made its training data, algorithms and hardware designs available for free, which may help it to shape global standards. Semiconductors offer another illustration. China is dependent on designs from Western chip firms. As part of its push for self-sufficiency, the government is urging firms to adopt RISC-V, an open chip architecture developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Many Chinese firms also hope that more transparent technology will help them win acceptance for their products abroad. (via Nelson)]]> via:nelson open-source china free deepseek qwen alibaba unitree transparency https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9adecbdb7d3b/ 2024-04-04T22:56:14+00:00 https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review_of_the_Summer_2023_MEO_Intrusion_Final_508c.pdf jm In May and June 2023, a threat actor compromised the Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes of 22 organizations and over 500 individuals around the world. The actor—known as Storm-0558 and assessed to be affiliated with the People’s Republic of China in pursuit of espionage objectives—accessed the accounts using authentication tokens that were signed by a key Microsoft had created in 2016. This intrusion compromised senior United States government representatives working on national security matters, including the email accounts of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, United States Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China R. Nicholas Burns, and Congressman Don Bacon. Signing keys, used for secure authentication into remote systems, are the cryptographic equivalent of crown jewels for any cloud service provider. As occurred in the course of this incident, an adversary in possession of a valid signing key can grant itself permission to access any information or systems within that key’s domain. A single key’s reach can be enormous, and in this case the stolen key had extraordinary power. In fact, when combined with another flaw in Microsoft’s authentication system, the key permitted Storm-0558 to gain full access to essentially any Exchange Online account anywhere in the world. As of the date of this report, Microsoft does not know how or when Storm-0558 obtained the signing key. [...] The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred. The Board also concludes that Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul, particularly in light of the company’s centrality in the technology ecosystem and the level of trust customers place in the company to protect their data and operations. The Board reaches this conclusion based on: 1. the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed; 2. Microsoft’s failure to detect the compromise of its cryptographic crown jewels on its own, relying instead on a customer to reach out to identify anomalies the customer had observed; 3. the Board’s assessment of security practices at other cloud service providers, which maintained security controls that Microsoft did not; 4. Microsoft’s failure to detect a compromise of an employee's laptop from a recently acquired company prior to allowing it to connect to Microsoft’s corporate network in 2021; 5. Microsoft’s decision not to correct, in a timely manner, its inaccurate public statements about this incident, including a corporate statement that Microsoft believed it had determined the likely root cause of the intrusion when in fact, it still has not; even though Microsoft acknowledged to the Board in November 2023 that its September 6, 2023 blog post about the root cause was inaccurate, it did not update that post until March 12, 2024, as the Board was concluding its review and only after the Board’s repeated questioning about Microsoft’s plans to issue a correction; 6. the Board's observation of a separate incident, disclosed by Microsoft in January 2024, the investigation of which was not in the purview of the Board’s review, which revealed a compromise that allowed a different nation-state actor to access highly-sensitive Microsoft corporate email accounts, source code repositories, and internal systems; and 7. how Microsoft’s ubiquitous and critical products, which underpin essential services that support national security, the foundations of our economy, and public health and safety, require the company to demonstrate the highest standards of security, accountability, and transparency. Throughout this review, the Board identified a series of Microsoft operational and strategic decisions that collectively point to a corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management. (via Graham on ITC Slack)]]> cisa reports security infosec microsoft exchange china storm-0558 hacking incidents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1484c7c2a0a5/ 2023-08-24T21:54:37+00:00 https://quillette.com/2023/08/19/the-lab-leak-illusion/ jmI learned almost nothing of value when I was a [JFK] conspiracy theorist, but I did learn quite a lot pulling myself out of that mindset, and like [Scott] Alexander, I would never have done so had I only ever encountered people who told me I was being an imbecile. Part of the appeal of conspiracy theories is that they allow a person to feel more intelligent than the drones who passively drift along on the current of received consensus. [...] For now and the foreseeable future, much of the COVID-origins discourse remains committed to an illusory explanation that appeals to misfiring intuitions and trades almost entirely in suspicion and innuendo. Highly intelligent minds are as vulnerable to irrational thinking and conspiracist ideation as those of the cognitively impaired, particularly if they are used to perceiving problems in political terms. Reasoning well, Scott Alexander reminds us, is hard and “all factual claims can become the basis for emotional/social coalitions.” The best way to avoid this trap is to try to remember that we do not live through the looking glass where up is down and black is white. In quotidian reality, things are usually exactly as they appear to be. ]]> reasoning logic media lab-leak covid-19 conspiracies politics us-politics china long-reads https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:95d1bb2fe74e/ 2022-08-27T13:38:25+00:00 https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1562321634295312384 jm custom-audiences targeting twitter china surveillance intelligence-agencies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7f9b6d2e0d2c/ 2022-03-01T18:00:17+00:00 https://twitter.com/MichaelWorobey/status/1497607313397481472 jmWe have just released two preprints on the origin of SARS-CoV-2: 1. "The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence" ( https://zenodo.org/record/6299116#.YhpLBi9h06w ) & 2. "SARS-CoV-2 emergence very likely resulted from at least two zoonotic events" ( https://zenodo.org/record/6291628 ) These are excellent.]]> animals china epidemiology sars-cov-2 covid-19 lab-leak michael-worobey papers preprints zoonosis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:251cd44078ca/ 2021-10-04T10:12:26+00:00 https://chaoyang.substack.com/p/wanghong-urbanism jmAt the simplest level, [wanghong] means “internet famous,” referring in its earliest iterations to viral personalities or social media influencers. The word has since mutated, expanding and venn-diagramming with a particular hipster aesthetic, strands of urban design and kinds of tech platform architecture. ]]> celebrity china photography internet neologisms wanghong instagram fame viral internet-famous https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7cf2fa6fee5e/ 2021-08-30T09:20:55+00:00 https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century jmArm China, 安谋科技, is asserting their independence. It is the most publicized instance of a joint venture in China going rogue, but also the most dangerous one. Over the decades IP has been taken and replicated in China, but this may be the most brazen attempt yet. Arm has been shaken to its core with the 2nd largest market snatched from underneath it. While they are the largest individual owner in this firm, they have no control or power over it. 安谋科技 has set out on its own path and begun to develop its own IP. The base of Arm’s old IP is not the end of their line. There are many questions swirling about what this means for a potential Nvidia takeover or IPO, but it is clear that SoftBank’s short sighted profit driven behavior has caused a massive conundrum. (via John Looney)]]> arm business china cpus hardware ip joint-ventures https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ae27c071f500/ 2021-04-19T09:42:24+00:00 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/ jmAs an icebreaker, [telco operators] were asked if they thought the Chinese could eavesdrop through “backdoors” in Huawei equipment. Every single hand went up. One of the bankers then asked, for balance, if they thought the US could access communications through key Cisco equipment. “All the hands went straight back up without hesitation” [....] In a modern telecommunications service provider, new equipment is deployed, configured, maintained and often financed by the vendor. Just to let that sink in, Huawei (and their close partners) already run and directly operate the mobile telecommunication infrastructure for over 100 million European subscribers. The host service provider often has no detailed insight in what is going on, and would have a hard time figuring this out through their remaining staff. Rampant outsourcing has meant that most local expertise has also left the company, willingly or unwillingly. (via ITS slack)]]> telcos telecoms ops networking eu 5g china huawei nsa tapping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d2ae6fa81687/ 2021-01-20T19:02:39+00:00 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32656-8/fulltext jmFatigue or muscle weakness (63%, 1038 of 1655) and sleep difficulties (26%, 437 of 1655) were the most common symptoms. Anxiety or depression was reported among 23% (367 of 1617) of patients. The proportions of median 6-min walking distance less than the lower limit of the normal range were 24% for those at severity scale 3, 22% for severity scale 4, and 29% for severity scale 5–6. ]]> covid-19 long-covid china preprints papers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:320a59e8db61/ 2020-06-29T10:39:46+00:00 https://twitter.com/daphnekylee/status/1277101831693275136 jm day night life kids parenting procrastination bedtime sleep china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49632d68dd64/ 2020-06-14T22:24:06+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/14/the-lancets-editor-the-uk-response-to-coronavirus-is-the-greatest-science-policy-failure-for-a-generation jmHe still can’t understand why the government’s scientific advisers didn’t consult their counterparts in China. The world of medicine is a small one, he says, and everyone knows the people responsible for coordinating the Chinese government’s response. “These are people they could have literally sent an email to, or picked the phone up to, and said, ‘Hey, we read your paper in the Lancet, can it really be as bad as that? What is going on in Wuhan?’ And if they’d done that they would have found out that this was indeed as bad as described.” This is exactly what blew my mind. It was clear IN JANUARY what was happening in China, and how they had to deal with it.]]> covid-19 china lancet medicine pandemics uk policy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4daaf3112946/ 2020-06-02T09:49:01+00:00 https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/05/29/862602058/opinion-the-ghosts-of-colonialism-are-haunting-the-worlds-response-to-the-pandem jmThere was public knowledge of a viral respiratory epidemic threat from China in January, yet serious nationwide public health responses in the U.S. and U.K. did not start until March 2020. Even once it became clear that wealthy countries were at risk, there was a widespread reluctance to learn from China and from other Asian countries. The American reaction focused instead on blaming China – consider President Trump's use of the term "Chinese virus." China was further criticized for using draconian measures when millions of people in Wuhan were put under lockdown – even though the countries of the West that denigrated such tactics might today be better off if they had acted similarly. Indeed, recent data suggests that the majority of cases in the United States came from New York City. Restricting travel out of the city, as was done in Wuhan, might have meant far fewer cases in the U.S. ]]> colonialism diseases covid-19 history neocolonialism china usa uk asia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c70f059d297a/ 2020-04-20T14:49:58+00:00 https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article jm china covid-19 air-conditioning droplets transmission diseases sars-cov-2 infection https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c901dc8ba775/ 2020-04-03T09:54:03+00:00 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30744-3/fulltext jm... a novel public health concept. They were implemented for the first time in China in February, 2020, to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. The Fangcang shelter hospitals in China were large-scale, temporary hospitals, rapidly built by converting existing public venues, such as stadiums and exhibition centres, into health-care facilities. They served to isolate patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 from their families and communities, while providing medical care, disease monitoring, food, shelter, and social activities. ]]> fangcangs hospitals covid-19 buildings architecture emergencies china pandemics medicine https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:262487d7c353/ 2020-03-18T11:10:44+00:00 https://covid-19.alibabacloud.com/ jmThe Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation, together with the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, jointly established the Global MediXchange for Combating COVID-19 (GMCC) programme, with the support of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence and Alibaba Health, to help combat the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. This platform was established to facilitate continued communication and collaboration across borders, as well as to provide the necessary computing capabilities and data intelligence to empower pivotal research efforts. The platform can provide frontline medical teams with the necessary communication channels to share practical experience and information about fighting the pandemic. They've put together a handbook of COVID-19 preventation and treatment, based on the Chinese experience.]]> treatment medical covid-19 china jack-ma alibaba medicine health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e60eae33b3fa/ 2020-03-17T22:40:44+00:00 https://github.com/BDI-pathogens/covid-19_instant_tracing/blob/master/Policy%20forum%20-%20COVID-19%20containment%20by%20herd%20protection.pdf jmChina have enforced a variety of measures aimed at social distancing including lockdowns, restrictions on movement and cordon-sanitaires, as well as the Alipay Health Code smartphone application (an add on to the WeChat app system) now adopted in over 200 cities and by 90% of individuals in one Chinese province. A separate system has been implemented in South Korea, and both have come under public scrutiny over issues of data protection and privacy. We sought to design a broadly acceptable version of this platform, leveraging commonly used smartphone functionality. This system is currently in development, and based on a very simple algorithm, that we show through mathematical modelling will enable public health agencies to prevent a COVID-19 epidemic while minimizing social and economic disruption. This also introduced me to a new concept, "herd protection", which is described as "Ronald Ross's great discovery: you don't need to stop all infections to stop an epidemic, you need to get and keep R<1."]]> papers toread covid-19 social-distancing movement cordons quarantine epidemics pandemics china smartphones location herd-protection https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:57243d6c3120/ 2020-03-02T22:23:39+00:00 https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21161067/coronavirus-covid19-china jmHere, again, is where I’ve seen things starting to break down. What I’ve been told is if you think you’ve been exposed and have a fever, call your [general practitioner]. We’ve got to be better than that. If we are going to use our GPs — do they have an emergency line where you can get through? Do they know what to do? In China, they have set up a giant network of fever hospitals. In some areas, a team can go to you and swab you and have an answer for you in four to seven hours. But you’ve got to be set up — speed is everything. ]]> covid19 coronavirus china hospitals healthcare medicine pandemics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4d21f9058d65/ 2020-02-17T17:28:43+00:00 https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/dna-privacy-commercial-research-5002574-Feb2020/ jmIn the UK, the publicly-funded 100,000 Genomes Project is attempting to sequence 100,000 genomes from 85,000 NHS patients. It is a private company, owned by the Department of Health and Social Care, that partners with industry and has transparent policies in place on ethics, access to the genetic data and engagement with patients and the public. Ireland too has decided to invest in genomic medicine. Rather than ensure that this investment is in a manner that best serves the Irish public, €73.5 million was given to Genomic Medicine Ireland (GMI), a company owned by the Chinese pharmaceutical company WuXi with zero public ownership, to sequence the genomes of 400,000 Irish people. This investment has serious legal and ethical concerns that are likely to negatively impact genomic research in Ireland. ]]> ireland genomics genomes medicine health future china wuxi gmi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a78e1e275c03/ 2020-01-09T17:12:52+00:00 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms jmIf disinformation in 2016 was characterized by Macedonian spammers pushing pro-Trump fake news and Russian trolls running rampant on platforms, 2020 is shaping up to be the year communications pros for hire provide sophisticated online propaganda operations to anyone willing to pay. Around the globe, politicians, parties, governments, and other clients hire what is known in the industry as “black PR” firms to spread lies and manipulate online discourse. A BuzzFeed News review — which looked at account takedowns by platforms that deactivated and investigations by security and research firms — found that since 2011, at least 27 online information operations have been partially or wholly attributed to PR or marketing firms. Of those, 19 occurred in 2019 alone. ]]> disinformation china propaganda pr disinfo social-media marketing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:50de876c041d/ 2019-12-16T21:49:11+00:00 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/cop25-ended-in-failure-whats-the-way-forward.html jmover the last few months, I’ve found myself thinking a lot more about the model offered by the nuclear nonproliferation agreements forged between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the late 1980s — the planet’s two superpowers reaching a kind of consensus about a global existential threat, taking significant (if not complete) steps to mitigate that risk, and then more or less bullying the rest of the world to follow suit. Climate change is a very different challenge, but policy negotiations to address it may nevertheless benefit from reducing the number of sides involved in a game-theory calculus from 186 (the number of nations party to the Paris accords) to just two (in this case, the U.S. and China). Of course, this would require not just a complete change of perspective on climate in Washington but some shift almost as complete in Beijing, where commitments made in 2019 to open new coal plants are sufficient on their own to eliminate the entire planet’s chances of staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. ]]> nonproliferation history agreements international us-politics usa china treaties climate-change https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7038a2cec3be/ 2019-12-16T11:20:18+00:00 https://twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/status/1206455412955832320 jm panopticon china surveillance grim-meathook-future facial-recognition camera cctv https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:78305cc53f0f/ 2019-12-09T11:43:44+00:00 https://onezero.medium.com/now-any-government-can-buy-chinas-tools-for-censoring-the-internet-18ed862b9138 jm“Autocracy as a service” lets countries buy or rent the technology and expertise they need, as they need it. It gets around the problem that being able to censor and surveil the internet isn’t just a technology challenge, but a management and human resource one. China offers a full-stack of options up and down the layers of the internet, including policies and laws, communications service providers with full internet shutdown options pre-installed, technical standards, satellites, cables, and infrastructure. This is possible because China has developed its own indigenous internet stack, sometimes copying the foreign technology it sought to replace. China even offers training in governance and strategy, consulting on writing a national strategy, and help building smart cities with its own full surveillance stack, euphemistically called “safe cities.” ]]> grim-meathook-future china censorship future internet surveillance autocracy repression https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dd8e396503c2/ 2019-12-05T23:15:13+00:00 https://time.com/5735411/china-surveillance-privacy-issues/ jmBakitali Nur, 47, a fruit and vegetable exporter in the Xinjiang town of Khorgos, was arrested after authorities became suspicious of his frequent business trips abroad. The father of three says he spent a year in a single room with seven other inmates, all clad in blue jumpsuits, forced to sit still on plastic stools for 17 hours straight as four HikVision cameras recorded every move. “Anyone caught talking or moving was forced into stress positions for hours at a time,” he says. Bakitali was released only after he developed a chronic illness. But his surveillance hell continued over five months of virtual house arrest, which is common for former detainees. He was forbidden from traveling outside his village without permission, and a CCTV camera was installed opposite his home. Every time he approached the front door, a policeman would call to ask where he was going. He had to report to the local government office every day to undergo “political education” and write a self-criticism detailing his previous day’s activities. Unable to travel for work, former detainees like Bakitali are often obliged to toil at government factories for wages as miserly as 35¢ per day, according to former workers interviewed by TIME. “The entire system is designed to suppress us,” Bakitali says in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he escaped in May. The result is dystopian. When every aspect of life is under constant scrutiny, it’s not just “bad” behavior that must be avoided. Muslims in Xinjiang are under constant pressure to act in a manner that the CCP would approve. While posting controversial material online is clearly reckless, not using social media at all could also be considered suspicious, so Muslims share glowing news about the country and party as a means of defense. ]]> uighurs china dystopia surveillance xinjiang authoritarianism grim https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4b0744d67cc9/ 2019-12-04T11:39:49+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html jmThe Chinese government is building “essentially technologies used for hunting people,” said Mark Munsterhjelm, an assistant professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario who tracks Chinese interest in the technology. In the world of science, Dr. Munsterhjelm said, “there’s a kind of culture of complacency that has now given way to complicity.” ]]> grim-meathook-future china racism science surveillance dna phenotypes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9e538350ffb4/ 2019-11-25T14:07:55+00:00 https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/ jm“The Chinese have bought into a model of policing where they believe that through the collection of large-scale data run through artificial intelligence and machine learning that they can, in fact, predict ahead of time where possible incidents might take place, as well as identify possible populations that have the propensity to engage in anti-state anti-regime action,” said Mulvenon, the SOS International document expert and director of intelligence integration. “And then they are preemptively going after those people using that data.” Mulvenon said IJOP is more than a “pre-crime” platform, but a “machine-learning, artificial intelligence, command and control” platform that substitutes artificial intelligence for human judgment. He described it as a “cybernetic brain” central to China’s most advanced police and military strategies. Such a system “infantilizes” those tasked with implementing it, said Mulvenon, creating the conditions for policies that could spin out of control with catastrophic results. The program collects and interprets data without regard to privacy, and flags ordinary people for investigation based on seemingly innocuous criteria, such as daily prayer, travel abroad, or frequently using the back door of their home. Perhaps even more significant than the actual data collected are the grinding psychological effects of living under such a system.  With batteries of facial-recognition cameras on street corners, endless checkpoints and webs of informants, IJOP generates a sense of an omniscient, omnipresent state that can peer into the most intimate aspects of daily life.  As neighbors disappear based on the workings of unknown algorithms, Xinjiang lives in a perpetual state of terror. The seeming randomness of investigations resulting from IJOP isn’t a bug but a feature, said Samantha Hoffman, an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute whose research focuses on China’s use of data collection for social control. “That’s how state terror works,” Hoffman said. “Part of the fear that this instills is that you don’t know when you’re not OK.” ]]> terror dystopia china algorithms ijop future policing grim-meathook-future privacy data-privacy uighurs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:56d5edb57106/ 2019-11-13T22:49:02+00:00 https://www.metafilter.com/184071/everyone-is-a-badass-until-theres-a-knock-at-the-door#7823263 jm china lgbt metafilter shenzen naomi-wu via:nelson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cff1e10cf614/ 2019-09-19T16:12:46+00:00 https://idlewords.com/talks/hk_stanford.html jm china communication hong-kong protests protesting privacy telegram future messaging https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d171a80f0dd1/ 2019-06-24T10:08:50+00:00 https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5590 jmideologically, a core tenant of open source is non-discriminatory empowerment. When I was introduced to open source in the 90’s, the chief “bad guy” was Microsoft – people wanted to defend against “embrace, extend, extinguish” corporate practices, and by homesteading on the technological frontier with GNU/Linux we were ensuring that our livelihoods, independence, and security would never be beholden to a hostile corporate power. Now, the world has changed. Our open source code may end up being labeled as enabling a “foreign adversary”. I never suspected that I could end up on the “wrong side” of politics by being a staunch advocate of open source, but here I am. My open source mission is to empower people to be technologically independent; to know that technology is not magic, so that nobody will ever be a slave to technology. This is true even if that means resisting my own government. The erosion of freedom starts with restricting access to “foreign adversaries”, and ends with the government arbitrarily picking politically convenient winners and losers to participate in the open source ecosystem. Freedom means freedom, and I will stand to defend it. Now that the US is carpet-bombing Huawei’s supply chain, I fear there is no turning back. The language already written into EO13873 sets the stage to threaten open source as a whole by drawing geopolitical and national security borders over otherwise non-discriminatory development efforts. While I still hold hope that the trade war could de-escalate, the proliferation and stockpiling of powerful anti-trade weapons like EO13873 is worrisome. Now is the time to raise awareness of the threat this poses to the open source world, so that we can prepare and come together to protect the freedoms we cherish the most. I hope, in all earnestness, that open source shall not be a casualty of this trade war. ]]> open-source business china economics huawei us-politics trade-war oss gnu linux https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:56e3429e0c97/ 2019-04-30T15:36:50+00:00 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/huawei_enterprise_router_backdoor_is_telnet/ jmCharacterising Telnet as a backdoor is a bit like describing your catflap as an access portal with no physical security features that allows multiple species to pass unhindered through a critical home security layer. In other words, massively over-egging the pudding. ]]> huawei vodafone funny security bloomberg overexcited drama us-politics china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:622d70312bd3/ 2019-02-01T11:30:13+00:00 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2181749/chinese-technology-helping-new-york-police-keep-closer-eye-united jmThe surveillance tools are identical to those used in Sky Net in China, the largest video surveillance system on Earth, Chinese government research institutes and a company involved in the project said. At a time when China and the United States are locked in a rivalry on several fronts including trade and technology, Hikvision – the world’s largest surveillance technology company, which is state-owned and based in Hangzhou in eastern China – has supplied the equipment and software used by an American force that polices a population of about 8.6 million people. It has been claimed that Hikvision’s system can accurately identify faces regardless of race, whereas some Western-developed technology had previously been more accurate for white people than for black citizens – although the NYPD has not discussed its reasons for using the Chinese technology. The Sky Net programme, now renamed Pingan Chengshi, or Safe Cities, claimed to have connected 170 million cameras across China last year. By 2020, another 400 million units will be installed, it said, casting a watchful eye on every two citizens. Beijing plans to be able to identify anyone, anytime, anywhere in China within three seconds. ]]> surveillance new-york nyc skynet china cctv hikvision https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:284bbc9b3fb0/ 2019-01-28T15:10:46+00:00 https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/26/china-big-data-fuels-crackdown-minority-region jmChinese authorities are building and deploying a predictive policing program based on big data analysis in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. The program aggregates data about people – often without their knowledge – and flags those it deems potentially threatening to officials. According to interviewees, some of those targeted are detained and sent to extralegal “political education centers” where they are held indefinitely without charge or trial, and can be subject to abuse. “For the first time, we are able to demonstrate that the Chinese government’s use of big data and predictive policing not only blatantly violates privacy rights, but also enables officials to arbitrarily detain people,” said Maya Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. “People in Xinjiang can’t resist or challenge the increasingly intrusive scrutiny of their daily lives because most don’t even know about this ‘black box’ program or how it works.” (via Zeynep Tufekci)]]> via:zeynep human-rights china grim-meathook-future future grim policing xinjiang prison-camps surveillance big-data https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3bccee1a987b/ 2018-12-18T11:33:01+00:00 https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/ jmThe engineers used the data they pulled from [acquired Baidu front-end site] 265.com to learn about the kinds of things that people located in mainland China routinely search for in Mandarin. This helped them to build a prototype of Dragonfly. The engineers used the sample queries from 265.com, for instance, to review lists of websites Chinese people would see if they typed the same word or phrase into Google. They then used a tool they called “BeaconTower” to check whether any websites in the Google search results would be blocked by China’s internet censorship system, known as the Great Firewall. Through this process, the engineers compiled a list of thousands of banned websites, which they integrated into the Dragonfly search platform so that it would purge links to websites prohibited in China, such as those of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and British news broadcaster BBC. Under normal company protocol, analysis of people’s search queries is subject to tight constraints and should be reviewed by the company’s privacy staff, whose job is to safeguard user rights. But the privacy team only found out about the 265.com data access after The Intercept revealed it, and were “really pissed,” according to one Google source. ]]> china search tech google privacy baidu interception censorship great-firewall dragonfly https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e1259bd9e654/ 2018-11-20T11:54:31+00:00 https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/traditional-chinese-medicine-origins-mao-invented-it-but-didnt-believe-in-it.html jmMikulski and the rest of the Senate may be surprised to learn that they were repeating 60-year-old justifications of Chinese medicine put forward by Chairman Mao. Unlike Mikulski, however, Mao was under no illusion that Chinese medicine—a key component of naturopathic education—actually worked. In The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Li Zhisui, one of Mao’s personal physicians, recounts a conversation they had on the subject. Trained as an M.D. in Western medicine, Li admitted to being baffled by ancient Chinese medical books, especially their theories relating to the five elements. It turns out his employer also found them implausible.  via Dr. Jen Gunter]]> medicine tcm mao history china health naturopathy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c6ba9727a349/ 2018-10-04T11:15:11+00:00 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies jmNested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. [...] investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China. ]]> chips security technology china subcontracting business hardware hacking amazon supermicro manufacturing supply-chains https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f5d79288bcaa/ 2018-08-23T09:07:51+00:00 https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist jmLiu seems ambivalent toward the plight of burgled museums, especially a place like the Fontainebleau, which he says holds more looted Chinese art than any other institution on earth and advertises the collection's origins as plunder from the sacking of the Old Summer Palace. “Displaying these objects in European museums is like a theft itself—they're just showing it off without concern,” Liu said. “I know that we won't get everything back in my lifetime,” he continued. “We will never give up, we will never stop—no matter the effort. We need [the Chinese] people to see that everything that belonged to us is coming back.” It's very hard to feel sympathy for the European museums, to be honest....]]> art crime antiquities heritage patrimony china asia colonialism repatriation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6d4a49674890/ 2018-06-18T10:15:20+00:00 https://twitter.com/oliverbruce/status/1007327624304025600/photo/1 jm china bikesharing cycling bikes transit public-transit commuting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:16589c61441f/ 2018-01-15T11:52:22+00:00 https://www.thechinastory.org/2016/02/shanzhai-%E5%B1%B1%E5%AF%A8-china-its-contents/ jmAs he drinks Sino-coffee for around RMB 10, Comrade X might well be wearing the latest ‘ZARE’ couture while watching the TV news streaming on his HiPhone.[2] Back in Guangdong, his girlfriend — a sales consultant at a small stall in one of Shenzhen’s many wholesale electronics markets — sports a ‘high-end replica’ 高仿 Louis Vuitton bag and makes a living selling ‘domestically produced’ 国产 and ‘smuggled’ 水货 smartphones. The imitation products that festoon the couple’s lives are part of ‘shanzhai 山寨 China’. Shanzhai, the word means roughly ‘mass-produced imitation goods’, has created a Chinese landscape that is littered with products derided by the media, Chinese and international, as ‘copycat’, ‘guerrilla counterfeits’ and ‘knockoffs’, all the work of thieves.[3] Those who feel that their intellectual property and copyright has been infringed by shanzhai producers describe the products as ‘rubbish’, ‘piracy in disguise’ and ‘hooligan’.[4] Regardless of such righteous outrage, shanzhai — the producers, the products and the mentality — continues to flourish as an essential, quasi-legitimate shadow dimension of the Chinese economy. And, in practical terms, shanzhai products give disenfranchised ‘non-consumers’ of the orthodox economy — that is, people who would like to own but can’t afford the ‘original’ products — cut-price access to high-end technologies, as well as offering aspirational shoppers consumer satisfaction. ]]> shanzai china fakes consumerism hiphone smartphones copycat knockoffs imitation consumption https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1e4f890c4b26/ 2017-11-08T22:07:10+00:00 https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046 jmIn short, I am in support of Naomi Wu. Rather than let the Internet speculate on why, I am sharing my perspectives on the situation preemptively. As with most Internet controversies, it’s messy and emotional. I will try my best to outline the biases and issues I have observed. Of course, everyone has their perspective; you don’t have to agree with mine. And I suspect many of my core audience will dislike and disagree with this post. However, the beginning of healing starts with sharing and listening. I will share, and I respectfully request that readers read the entire content of this post before attacking any individual point out of context. The key forces I see at play are: Prototype Bias – how assumptions based on stereotypes influence the way we think and feel Idol Effect – the tendency to assign exaggerated capabilities and inflated expectations upon celebrities Power Asymmetry – those with more power have more influence, and should be held to a higher standard of accountability Guanxi Bias – the tendency to give foreign faces more credibility than local faces in China All these forces came together in a perfect storm this past week. ]]> culture engineering maker naomi-wu women stereotypes bias idols power china bunnie https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d988f6d57a9f/ 2017-08-16T14:51:50+00:00 https://aliholic.com/shop-aliexpress-safe-real-scam/ jm china aliexpress dealextreme gearbest gadgets buying tat aliholic stuff https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5db0712c8e0a/ 2017-04-13T10:15:31+00:00 https://theintercept.com/2017/04/10/snowden-documents-reveal-scope-of-secrets-exposed-to-china-in-2001-spy-plane-incident/ jm china us spying nsa ep-3e spy-planes surveillance snowden https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:14d4be484568/ 2016-10-14T14:38:09+00:00 https://medium.com/@keyboardio/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most-fascinating-electronics-market-f0384d9fca32#.beu6cl7hn jmSix dollars for: a GSM chipset, a CPU, an LCD screen, a battery, a PCB, a metal housing, a molded silicone watch band, a MicroUSB cable, and a box. And the labor to assemble and test all of that. ]]> gadgets crap shenzen huaqiangbei shopping hardware china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fd1d1e859d5e/ 2016-05-10T14:42:40+00:00 http://boingboing.net/2016/05/04/chinese-censorship-arbitrary.html jmChina's Internet censors are capricious and impossible to predict -- but this isn't because China's censors are incompetent, rather, they're tapping into one of the most powerful forms of conditioning, the uncertainty born of intermittent reinforcement. [...] As C Custer writes at Tech in Asia, this caprice is by design: by not specifying a set of hard and fast rules, but rather the constant risk of being taken down for crossing some invisible line, China's censors inspire risk-aversion in people who rely on the net to be heard or earn their livings. It's what Singaporeans call "out of bounds," the unspecified realm of things you mustn't, shouldn't or won't want to enter. ]]> risk risk-aversion censorship control china politics enforcement crime self-censorship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:56d67faf380a/ 2015-11-30T17:29:15+00:00 http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/how-to-make-millions-of-hoverboards-almost-overnight#.qh6A86KDj jmOn a humid afternoon, Zhou went shopping for some of those very parts at a Bao An market. As he pulled his maroon minivan into a crowded parking lot, the full scale of Depu Electronics came into view: a three-story concrete behemoth roughly bigger than a Costco and roughly smaller than the Pentagon. Inside, it looked like the world’s largest Radio Shack going out of business sale: an endless series of booths with cables and circuit boards and plugs and ports and buttons and machines piled so high on tables that the faces of the clerks who were selling them were hidden from view. Each booth seemed to argue: We have exactly what you want and we have enough of it for all of your customers. Short of motorized wheels and molding, the market offered nearly everything an ambitious factory owner would need to build a hoverboard, just waiting to be bought, assembled, and shipped. ]]> hoverboards memes china manufacturing future gadgets tat bao-an electronics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a23a6d56bc83/ 2015-10-05T10:02:41+00:00 https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions/ jmChina just introduced a universal credit score, where everybody is measured as a number between 350 and 950. But this credit score isn’t just affected by how well you manage credit – it also reflects how well your political opinions are in line with Chinese official opinions, and whether your friends’ are, too. Measuring using online mass surveillance, naturally. This may be the most dystopian thing I've heard in a while....]]> via:raycorrigan dystopia china privacy mass-surveillance politics credit credit-score loans opinions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:736b6ac21879/ 2015-09-01T10:56:22+00:00 http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/malware-infecting-jailbroken-iphones-stole-225000-apple-account-logins/ jm KeyRaider, as the malware family has been dubbed, is distributed through a third-party repository of Cydia, which markets itself as an alternative to Apple's official App Store. Malicious code surreptitiously included with Cydia apps is creating problems for people in China and at least 17 other countries, including France, Russia, Japan, and the UK. Not only has it pilfered account data for 225,941 Apple accounts, it has also disabled some infected phones until users pay a ransom, and it has made unauthorized charges against some victims' accounts. Ouch. Not a good sign for Cydia]]> cydia apple security exploits jailbreaking ios iphone malware keyraider china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eaf72a81b204/ 2015-08-27T13:37:19+00:00 http://www.hihuadu.com/2015/03/28/mobile-phone-base-stations-upgraded-backpack-carrying-pseudo-rifa-1-million-text-messages-16799.html jmMarch 26, Zhengzhou police telecommunications fraud cases together, for the first time seized a small backpack can hide pseudo station equipment, and arrested two suspects. Yesterday, the police informed of this case, to remind the general public to pay attention to prevention. “I am the landlord, I changed number, please rent my wife hit the bank card, card number ×××, username ××.” Recently, Jiefang Road, Zhengzhou City Public Security Bureau police station received a number of cases for investigation brigade area of ​​the masses police said, frequently received similar phone scam messages. Alarm, the police investigators to determine: the suspect may be in the vicinity of twenty-seven square, large-scale use of mobile pseudo-base release fraudulent information. [...] Yesterday afternoon, the Jiefang Road police station, the reporter saw the portable pseudo-base is made up of two batteries, a set-top box the size of the antenna box and a chassis, as well as a pocket computer composed together at most 5 kg. (via t byfield and Danny O'Brien)]]> via:mala via:tbyfield privacy scams phishing sms gsm stingray base-stations mobile china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3fcabcbac7de/ 2015-08-22T08:34:33+00:00 http://boingboing.net/2015/08/21/chinese-gaming-multi-entry.html jmA few years ago, my mom called to ask for my advice on webcams. She explained (in the English-peppered Chinese that's the official language of our Chinese-American household) that some of her friends had started sharing videos of themselves singing karaoke. She thought she could do better. "我想给她们PK一下," she remarked: "I want to PK them a little." ]]> china language gaming pk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:80d67b17c7e9/ 2015-06-13T11:14:02+00:00 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/11/china-s-spies-hit-the-blackmail-jackpot-with-every-data-on-federal-worker.html jmHere’s where things start to get scary. Whoever has OPM’s records knows an astonishing amount about millions of federal workers, members of the military, and security clearance holders. They can now target those Americans for recruitment or influence. After all, they know their vices, every last one—the gambling habit, the inability to pay bills on time, the spats with former spouses, the taste for something sexual on the side—since all that is recorded in security clearance paperwork. (To get an idea of how detailed this gets, you can see the form, called an SF86, here.) Speaking as a former counterintelligence officer, it really doesn’t get much worse than this. ]]> daily-beast sf86 clearance us-government america china cyberwar hacking opm privacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fe1e837db67e/ 2015-04-26T21:21:57+00:00 http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ie/2015/04/a-javascript-based-ddos-attack-as-seen.html jmWe hope this report helps to round out the overall facts known about this attack. It also demonstrates that collectively there is a lot of visibility into what happens on the web. At the HTTP level seen by Safe Browsing, we cannot confidently attribute this attack to anyone. However, it makes it clear that hiding such attacks from detailed analysis after the fact is difficult. Had the entire web already moved to encrypted traffic via TLS, such an injection attack would not have been possible. This provides further motivation for transitioning the web to encrypted and integrity-protected communication. Unfortunately, defending against such an attack is not easy for website operators. In this case, the attack Javascript requests web resources sequentially and slowing down responses might have helped with reducing the overall attack traffic. Another hope is that the external visibility of this attack will serve as a deterrent in the future. Via Nelson.]]> google security via:nelson ddos javascript tls ssl safe-browsing networking china greatfire https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c5041898fa2c/ 2015-04-13T11:55:05+00:00 https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/ jmConducting such a widespread attack clearly demonstrates the weaponization of the Chinese Internet to co-opt arbitrary computers across the web and outside of China to achieve China’s policy ends.  The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country’s national priorities is a dangerous precedent — contrary to international norms and in violation of widespread domestic laws prohibiting the unauthorized use of computing and networked systems. ]]> censorship ddos internet security china great-cannon citizen-lab reports web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b24b2f182b3c/ 2015-03-31T10:08:07+00:00 https://zh.greatfire.org/blog/2015/mar/chinese-authorities-compromise-millions-cyberattacks jm china great-firewall censorship cyberwarfare github ddos baidu future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:46bfad1af427/ 2015-03-23T12:17:49+00:00 https://github.com/wangbin579/tcpcopy jm testing benchmarking performance tcp ip tcpcopy tee china regression-testing stress-testing ops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bced4bd88b36/ 2015-03-04T14:19:43+00:00 https://www.techinasia.com/alibaba-cloud-computing-service-launch-america-challenges-amazon-aws/ jmAlibaba’s cloud platform already competes with the likes of AWS in China. Aliyun’s Chinese data centers are in Beijing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen. “For the time being, we are just testing the water,” Yu said today. That means Aliyun will focus first on Chinese companies doing business in the US. “We know well what Chinese clients need, and now it’s time for us to learn what US clients need,” he added. ]]> alibaba china aws aliyun hosting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:76da7c43270e/ 2015-02-22T23:40:05+00:00 http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/how-i-became-a-minor-celebrity-in-china-after-my#.ddJNWrpgO jm viral theft phones iphone china stories weibo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:764c1056022d/ 2015-02-13T13:25:46+00:00 http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/02/12/chinas-internet-censors-now-have-their-own-theme-song-and-it-is-glorious/ jmAccording to a report posted Thursday to the website of the state-run China Youth Daily, the Cyberspace Administration of China choral group this week unveiled a new song, “Cyberspace Spirit,” glorifying the cleanliness and clarity of China’s uniquely managed Internet. The song, an orchestral march built around a chorus that proclaims China’s ambition to become an “Internet power,” opens with lyrics describing celestial bodies keeping careful watch over the sky. From there, the lyrics conjure more vivid imagery, comparing the Internet to “a beam of incorruptible sunlight” that unites “the powers of life from all creation.” ]]> china great-firewall censorship music songs cyberspace-spirit omgwtfbbq https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1a16dd2d7c2f/ 2014-12-29T12:43:56+00:00 http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-nations-are-stealing-us-technology-america-has-history jmHamilton used patents to lure immigrants with skills and knowledge to move to the United States. George Parkinson, for example, was awarded a patent in 1791 for a textile spinning machine, which was really just a rip-off of a machine he had used in England. The United States also paid his family's expenses to emigrate and re-locate to the US. [...] The Brits were not happy about the attempts to steal their intellectual property. Severe penalties were on the books for anyone trying to take machines or designs out of the country, or even to lure skilled workers. It was actually illegal for such skilled workers to leave the country. ]]> china gongkai patents ip copyright history us uk textiles spinning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:beffcb378e4d/ 2014-12-29T12:35:28+00:00 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297 jm opensource china gongkai tinkering reverse-engineering bunnie-huang open-source mediatek copyright facts fair-use shanzhai patents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9c552f35dac4/ 2014-11-21T20:46:39+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/2mkmlm/the_boss_has_malware_again/ jmFinally after all traditional means of infection were covered; IT started looking into other possibilities. They finally asked the Executive, “Have there been any changes in your life recently”? The executive answer “Well yes, I quit smoking two weeks ago and switched to e-cigarettes”. And that was the answer they were looking for, the made in china e-cigarette had malware hard coded into the charger and when plugged into a computer’s USB port the malware phoned home and infected the system. Moral of the story is have you ever question the legitimacy of the $5 dollar EBay made in China USB item that you just plugged into your computer? Because you should, you damn well should. (Via Elliot)]]> via:elliot malware e-cigarettes cigarettes smoking china risks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f8cb713f6c77/ 2014-11-03T12:09:01+00:00 http://bellisk.blogspot.ie/2012/05/roman-typefaces-used-in-chinese-and.html jmFrom this Ask MetaFilter post, it seems that the Roman letters are tacked onto [Chinese and Japanese] fonts almost as an afterthought, for when you need to interject a few words of English into your Chinese website, for example. Hence, they aren't really optimised for the eye of a non-Chinese writer, or perhaps aren't optimised much at all, and usually look like this. It's not one specific font as I thought. Informed! (via Elliot)]]> fonts typefaces china chinese japanese times https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dac76b057d97/ 2014-08-18T16:14:20+00:00 http://www.thecoinsman.com/2014/08/bitcoin/inside-chinese-bitcoin-mine/ jmThe mining operation resides on an old, repurposed factory floor, and contains 2500 machines hashing away at 230 Gh/s, each. (That’s 230 billion calculations per second, per unit). [...] The operators told me that the power bill of this specific operation is in excess of ¥400,000 per month [..] about $60,000 USD. ]]> currency china economics bitcoin power environment green mining datacenters https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cd7b0697fdfc/ 2014-08-01T12:32:37+00:00 http://www.ecns.cn/business/2014/03-26/106525.shtml jm privacy spam china imsi-catchers mobile 3g gsm phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:896fdcfbaab2/ 2014-03-26T13:49:33+00:00 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/26/spam_text_china_clampdown_police/ jmFake base stations are becoming a particularly popular modus operandi. Often concealed in a van or car, they are driven through city streets to spread their messages. The professional spammer in question charged 1,000 yuan (£100) to spam thousands of users in a radius of a few hundred metres. The pseudo-base station used could send out around 6,000 messages in just half an hour, the report said. Often such spammers are hired by local businessmen to promote their wares. (via Bernard Tyers)]]> stingers imsi-catcher mobile-phones mobile cellphones china spam via:bernard-tyers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:63f5ac87d836/ 2014-01-22T16:20:15+00:00 http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/01/22/chinese-internet-traffic-redirected-to-small-wyoming-house/?ref=technology jm china internet great-firewall dns wyoming attacks security not-the-onion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c6ae8f4e8c26/ 2013-10-28T22:17:00+00:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24707337 jmCyber criminals are planting chips in electric irons and kettles to launch spam [jm: actually, malware] attacks, reports in Russia suggest. State-owned channel Rossiya 24 even showed footage of a technician opening up an iron included in a batch of Chinese imports to find a "spy chip" with what he called "a little microphone". Its correspondent said the hidden devices were mostly being used to spread viruses, by connecting to any computer within a 200m (656ft) radius which were using unprotected Wi-Fi networks. Other products found to have rogue components reportedly included mobile phones and car dashboard cameras. ]]> wifi viruses spam malware security russia china toasters kettles appliances https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0035e7ed34c4/ 2013-07-26T13:26:50+00:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23452097 jm huawei talk-talk oversight overblocking politics china uk david-cameron filtering censorship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2c4e0c1973c4/ 2013-05-20T16:31:04+00:00 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040 jmWelcome to the Galapagos of Chinese “open” source. I call it “gongkai” (公开). Gongkai is the transliteration of “open” as applied to “open source”. I feel it deserves a term of its own, as the phenomenon has grown beyond the so-called “shanzhai” (山寨) and is becoming a self-sustaining innovation ecosystem of its own. Just as the Galapagos Islands is a unique biological ecosystem evolved in the absence of continental species, gongkai is a unique innovation ecosystem evolved with little western influence, thanks to political, language, and cultural isolation. Of course, just as the Galapagos was seeded by hardy species that found their way to the islands, gongkai was also seeded by hardy ideas that came from the west. These ideas fell on the fertile minds of the Pearl River delta, took root, and are evolving. Significantly, gongkai isn’t a totally lawless free-for-all. It’s a network of ideas, spread peer-to-peer, with certain rules to enforce sharing and to prevent leeching. It’s very different from Western IP concepts, but I’m trying to have an open mind about it. ]]> gongkai bunnie-huang china phone mobile hardware devices open-source https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7daa882c45bd/ 2013-03-24T21:23:13+00:00 http://www.languageoffood.blogspot.ie/2009/09/ketchup.html jm ketchup china nam-pla food etymology condiments history trade https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fc03547ec385/ 2012-01-05T22:41:48+00:00 https://grepular.com/Punching_through_The_Great_Firewall_of_TMobile jm china filtering rst internet iptables t-mobile uk payg mobile-internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c53894cccffc/