links for 2007-09-10

• For China's Censors, Electronic Offenders Are the New Frontier - washingtonpost.com
  "...party censors are now turning to China's booming Internet and cellphone networks with particular vigor. Given the easy access to technologies such as text messaging, censors have found it difficult to keep a grip on information."
  (tags: china internet chineseinternetresearch humanrights freespeech censorship)
• Mutant Palm: The Return of Fu Manchu - Chapter One: Heinous Hackers
  "...sloppy nonsense everywhere, mainly because everyone is tripping over themselves to get the movie plot version out, that no one is being suitably skeptical. Just consider some of the slobbering over the prospect of a new Cold War, beginning with The Gu
  (tags: china internet cyber-warfare journalism hackers)
• How Google Works
  A very useful guide to how google works.
  (tags: google search tools howto education)

Comments

[Kathryn Cramer]

And then there's this one: An Opportunity for Wall St. in China’s Surveillance Boom, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/business/worldbusiness/11security.html?hp

Key paragraph:

Wall Street analysts now follow the growth of companies that install surveillance systems providing Chinese police stations with 24-hour video feeds from nearby Internet cafes. Hedge fund money from the United States has paid for the development of not just better video cameras, but face-recognition software and even newer behavior-recognition software designed to spot the beginnings of a street protest and notify police.