Tag: CHINA

Fresh on the heels of a recent spate of suicides, it seems that Foxconn and Apple are determined to make the workers of the sprawling Shenzhen complex a bit happier. Generally speaking, if you're looking to brighten somebody's day, paying them more money is a great start. Apparently, the focus groups and deep investigations have led Hon Hai Precision Industry to the same conclusion, because ...

The Chinese workers who assembled this product signed a pledge agreement not to attempt suicide or violent rampage. It's not quite the sort of assurance that a company like Apple would ever want to print on their packaging, is it? It certainly doesn't jive well with the happy indie music for which Apple TV ads have become so well known, but it's exactly what's happening right now in Shenzhen, ...

It seems, if unnamed sources are to be believed, that the target of the cyberattack on Google back in January was none other than the unified Single Sign-On -- the system that controls access to almost every Google Web service, including Enterprise offerings and Gmail. Believe it or not, hackers managed to access the source code for the login system, potentially exposing any and all security ...

Happy Friday, Firefox aficionados! It is I, your fearless fill-in columnist! While our good friend Sebastian Anthony enjoys the natural beauty of Norway, I have taken it upon myself to use everyone's favorite browser -- Firefox, duh -- to investigate the Great Firewall of China. Find out how you can do that yourself, plus other fantastical Firefox news, in this week's Friday Firefox Five. Here ...

This bit of news is really over the top: It turns out that China required GoDaddy to obtain photo headshot identification of all Chinese nationals who tried to register domains with them. They were then to transfer this identification to a Chinese authority called the Network Information Center (CNNIC) so that they could "review" it. Not only that, but they were supposed to do it retroactively, ...

That's it; the deed is done -- Google stopped censoring results for China. As of this morning, users trying to access google.cn are redirected to google.com.hk, where Google provides uncensored search results. They use geolocation to figure out when a connection is from the mainland, and provide results in simplified Chinese. Users connecting from Hong Kong will keep getting results in ...

So Google implicated the Chinese government of cyber warfare (an accusation which was then backed up by the White House). Google then went into talks with the Chinese government about said attacks and the Chinese requirement to censor search results. The talks apparently went quite badly, and have now come to a standstill. And now, Yahoo! News reports that Google is pulling out of China. Might ...

The Chinese hacker behind the attacks on Google and other prominent Silicon Valley corporations has been found. Perhaps the term 'cracker' or 'security consultant' is more accurate though, because he didn't launch the attacks himself: he just created the proof-of-concept IE6 exploit code. The security consultant doesn't work directly with the government, but as a researcher his work and ...

I know, it's the story that never ends -- and really, don't expect it to end any time soon -- but here's another angle: what about Chinese hardware? We now know that either the Chinese government, or a very large privately-funded clandestine operation from Asia, has been hacking Western governments, intelligence agencies, and businesses for a decade. What if the hardware they produce also has ...

Your world is about to be rocked. If you're not a hardened, tinfoil hat-wearing the-apocalypse-is-nigh conspiracy theorist, you soon will be. Wired has just published a stunning article detailing a really scary report from computer forensic firm Mandiant. The story brings to light some disturbing truths about the always-connected, always-on world we live in. As an Internet nerd, I actually ...

How do you determine what something is worth? Generally speaking, the answer is that something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. This comes up when trying to evaluate the value of companies, but it can also come up when trying to evaluate the value of something that is conceptually new. For example, years ago companies popped up that created an economy around the hyperlink. Today ...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, the co-founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, said that software developers are working on 'interesting hacks' to evade the censorship by oppressive governments in China and Iran. He didn't go as far to say what these 'hacks' are -- he also said that the technology is being coded by third-party developers, rather than Twitter itself -- but he alluded to some ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/01/20/china-plans-home-brew-champion-supercomputer/'; For the second time in just three years, China is planning to build a supercomputer using its own home-grown Loongson family of processors. Loongson processors were meant to be used in the Dawning 5000a supercomputer back in 2008, but as they lacked Windows compatibility they were ...

It's no surprise that the last few days has seen a huge amount of information bubble to the surface regarding China's recent cyber attacks on the infrastructure of more than 30 Silicon Valley companies. Much of it is coming from the security and anti-virus companies -- now that the attack has been identified and halted, the world in general and the victims in particular want to know how it ...

Despite the recent shenanigans overseas involving Google, China has at least taken steps to help cut down on the amount of spam in our inboxes. Symantec's Samir Patil reports that their company has observed a major drop in spam originating from .CN domains. Back in December, the CNNIC announced that they would be enacting new rules about domain name registrations "in order to further enhance ...