Beijing is plugging the last holes in its 'Great Firewall' internet censorship apparatus, hampering the ability of global companies and foreign nationals to operate in the country. Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Mar 26, 2018.
Feature • Looking Inside Russia’s Creepy Innovative Internet: For the past five years, Russia has been building walls around its web and packing it with tech oligarchs, startup cities, face-finding algorithms, and hacker hunters. In this episode (video below) of Bloomberg's Hello World (published Nov 30, 2016), Ashlee Vance traveled to Russia to see how they do tech:
A Look Inside Russia’s 'Creepy' Innovative Internet:
• Android’s market share grows because it can fit any niche: "Android's open architecture, the platform is sweeping world markets. According to the latest IDC report, 87.6 percent of the 344.7 million smartphones that shipped in the second quarter of 2016 were equipped with Android software. Another 11.7 percent came with Apple's iOS, leaving less than 1 percent of the pie to share among Windows Phone and other challengers."--ArsTechnica.com
• Reddit.com CEO Huffman has finally issued a formal apology writing “I f*cked up. I ruined Thanksgiving. I’m sorry. I won’t do it again,” adding “I am sorry for compromising the trust you all have in Reddit.”--Techcrunch.com
• Hearings & Meetings | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Examining the Competitive Impact of the AT&T-Time Warner Transaction, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy & Consumer Rights; Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2016; Time: 10:00 AM; Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building 226; Presiding: Chairman Lee; Witnesses include Mr. Randall Stephenson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer AT&T Dallas, TX; Mr. Jeffrey Bewkes Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Time Warner New York, NY; Mr. Mark Cuban.
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IGF 2016 (Internet Governance Forum) Guadalajara, Mexico, Dec 5-9, more information here.
.Chinese authorities compromise millions in cyberattacks | GreatFire.org: ".. Based on the technical forensic evidence ... and the detailed research that has been done on the GitHub attack, we can now confidently conclude that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is responsible for both of these attacks. Hijacking the computers of millions of innocent internet users around the world is particularly striking as it illustrates the utter disregard the Chinese authorities have for international as well as even Chinese internet governance norms. There was no way for an average internet user to prevent themselves from being exploited as part of this attack ... Inserting malicious code in this manner can only be done via the Chinese Internet backbone. Even if CAC did not launch the DDoS attack directly, they are responsible for managing the internet in China and it is not possible that they did not know what was happening. These attacks have occurred under CAC’s watch... Lu Wei and the Cyberspace Administration of China have clearly escalated the tactics that they use to control information. The Great Firewall has switched from being a passive, inbound filter to being an active and aggressive outbound one. This is a frightening development and the implications of this action extend beyond control of information on the internet. In one quick movement, the authorities have shifted from enforcing strict censorship in China to enforcing Chinese censorship on internet users worldwide. CAC can launch these attacks quickly and easily and they have the technical and financial resources behind them to continue to launch DDoS attacks against any website, anywhere in the world... " (emphasis and CAC hyperlink added)
