U.S.-China Surveillance

The Washington Post today reports:
For the first time, the giant software maker is acknowledging the help of the secretive agency, better known for eavesdropping on foreign officials and, more recently, U.S. citizens as part of the Bush administration’s effort to combat terrorism. The agency said it has helped in the development of the security of [...]

While the state government in China has made noise recently about getting serious with ID on the Internet, the China Media Project reported Friday of new signs of resistance. “Personal ID generation tools” (身份证生成器) that are increasingly popular among Chinese net users appear to be facilitating the emergence of an underground market of transferable IDs [...]