Somehow china is becoming Ingsoc from 1984. Control people, censorship, Dictator state with no prospect of change, monitoring people, big brother is watching you type stuff among other things. Just a week ago I read about traffic warnings personalised by face recognition. Now this. Soon China might become Ingsoc with Minlove and Double think and what not.
China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
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Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#122The most weird news I have heard from Xinjiang is when Chinese authorities forced Muslims to dance on streets - https://tribune.com.pk/story/871879/suppressing-religious-fr...
this is absolutely sick. Why has this never reached the mainstream news?
There is a lot of other stuff going on that is completely unreported. I would recommend talking to Uyghurs directly.
Clearly China is trying to solidify their geographical borders by turning majority ethnic groups in those given regions in to minority groups of ever decreasing influence. This is straight out of a very old playbook for colonization. That they are able to so opening continue doing this in 2017 with so little global acknowledgement is only partially surprising.
Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#123>The app reportedly scans for the MD5 digital signatures of media files in the phone, and matches them to a stored database of offending files classified by the government as illegal "terrorist-related" media. What a dumb way to scan for "illegal" content, considering the goverment already controls their portion of the internet. So instead of monitoring who is accessing what they decide to compare checksums of files…
This is actually what digital forensics specialists do as well, although they've probably moved on from MD5 by now.
I know there's been talk of "fuzzy hashes" as well, in order to catch files with trivial modifications, but when I studied forensics (about four years ago), that was still in the future.
Searching hundreds of thousands or millions of files by hand would be impractical and for many types of offensive content, the authorities don't want to have to distribute the actual offensive content to the people who are doing the detection.
i.e. in the US, possession of child pornography is such a serious federal crime that if one happens to discover it on a PC they are servicing, they (or their employer) are legally obligated to contact the FBI immediately. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to distribute a detection tool that basically contains the original images (in order to do GIS-style "find similar images" searches), because that tool would violate the law it was designed to help enforce. Short hashes can't be used to recreate the original images, so they're "safe" in that sense.
It's not an ideal approach, but it works pretty well and fits within common constraints of the field.
Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I downloaded it and decompiled it here, if anyone wants to take a look: https://mirrors.asun.co/chinese-spyware/
Legend! thank you.
Product: Landa iTAP
Vendor: http://www.landasoft.com/html/class/dsjfx/index.html
C2 URL: http://bxaq.landaitap.com:22222/BXAQ/servlet/front/APPS?type... (HTTP POST)
Update URL: http://47.93.5.238:8081/APP/VERSION/jingwangweishi_version/v...
Interesting features:
MainActivity.this.scan = new SdcardScan("3GP,AMR,AVI,WEBM,FLV,IVX,M4A,MP3,MP4,MPG,RMVB,RAM,WMA,WMV,TXT,HTML,CHM,PNG,JPG", MainActivity.this.sdcardCallBack, true);
String SBMC = isTRN(isNull(EssentialInformation.getSBMC()));
String IMEI = isTRN(isNull(EssentialInformation.getIMEI(this)));
String MAC = isTRN(isNull(EssentialInformation.getMacAddress(this)));
String CSMC = isTRN(isNull(EssentialInformation.getPhoneCsModel()));
String XH = isTRN(isNull(EssentialInformation.getPhoneModel()));
String SJH = isTRN(isNull(EssentialInformation.getLineNum(this)));Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#125First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Muslims—and everyone rejoiced in their unity of hating them together.
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Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#126Somehow china is becoming Ingsoc from 1984. Control people, censorship, Dictator state with no prospect of change, monitoring people, big brother is watching you type stuff among other things. Just a week ago I read about traffic warnings personalised by face recognition. Now this. Soon China might become Ingsoc with Minlove and Double think and what not.
And this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Well damn. I am happy that I am not there.
Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#127>The app reportedly scans for the MD5 digital signatures of media files in the phone, and matches them to a stored database of offending files classified by the government as illegal "terrorist-related" media. What a dumb way to scan for "illegal" content, considering the goverment already controls their portion of the internet. So instead of monitoring who is accessing what they decide to compare checksums of files…
This is actually what digital forensics specialists do as well, although they've probably moved on from MD5 by now. I know there's been talk of "fuzzy hashes" as well, in order to catch files with trivial modifications, but when I studied forensics (about four years ago), that was still in the future. Searching hundreds of thousands or millions of files by hand would be impractical and for many types of offensive con…
There's a Microsoft product called PhotoDNA that does a fairly decent job of finding near matches. It's specifically used by several major image hosting places (Facebook and Tumblr I can specifically attest to using it, at least in the past) to find CP content uploaded by users. The hashes are shared among the services using PhotoDNA via NCMEC.
Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#128Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#129The most weird news I have heard from Xinjiang is when Chinese authorities forced Muslims to dance on streets - https://tribune.com.pk/story/871879/suppressing-religious-fr...
There are so many errors in this article in the first few paragraphs that I have trouble believing any of it, even if the story itself is believable from what I know of Chinese religious oppression.
First, Xinjiang is in the west, not east. Second, Uyghurs in China do not speak Turkish. They speak Uighur, a Turkic language, but its orthography is Arabic and forced Chinese. It looks nothing like Turkish, which uses a modified Latin script.
Also there are about 10m Uyghurs as of 2010, not 8m.
Re: China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
#130First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Muslims—and everyone rejoiced in their unity of hating them together.
people don't enjoy getting run over en masse by trucks or having their children decapitated by 'enthusiastic' religious adherents.