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<DIV>China's reaction.. seems like the law in China does not have a mirror-effect</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-01/19/c_13142941.htm" target=_blank mce_href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-01/19/c_13142941.htm"><FONT color=#800080><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/" target=_blank>http://news.xinhuanet.com/</a><WBR>english2010/china/2010-01/19/<WBR>c_13142941.htm</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV>Clinton: U.S. stands for a single internet where all have equal access to knowledge, ideas</DIV>
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<FONT size=+2><B>Clinton urges Internet freedom, condemns cyber attacks</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=-1>By Paul Eckert and Ben Blanchard<BR>Reuters<BR>Thursday, January 21, 2010; 2:15 PM </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for an unfettered worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google. </DIV>
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<DIV>"A new information curtain is descending across much of the world," she said, calling growing Internet curbs the modern equivalent of the Berlin Wall. </DIV>
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<DIV>"We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas," said Clinton in a major address that cited China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt among countries that censored the Internet or harassed bloggers. </DIV>
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<DIV>Countries that built electronic barriers to parts of the Internet or filtered search engine results contravened the U.N.'s Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which guarantees freedom of information, she said. </DIV>
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<DIV>Addressing concerns about cyber spying in China that have prompted <A href="http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=GOOG&nav=el" target="" mce_href="http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=GOOG&nav=el"><FONT color=#0066cc>Google Inc.</FONT></A> to threaten to quit that market, Clinton said "countries or individuals that engage in cyber attacks should face consequences and international condemnation." </DIV>
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<DIV>"In an interconnected world, an attack on one nation's networks can be an attack on all," Clinton said. </DIV>
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<DIV>"We look to Chinese authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the cyber intrusions that led Google to make this announcement," she said. </DIV>
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<DIV>U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell told reporters Washington had discussed the Google case with China several times from "working levels to very senior levels." </DIV>
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<DIV>In Beijing, comments by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei on Thursday appeared to be part of an effort to play down disputes and avoid further straining ties with Washington that are already troubled by quarrels over trade, Taiwan and human rights. </DIV>
<DIV>"The Google incident should not be linked to bilateral relations, otherwise that would be over-interpreting it," the official Xinhua news agency quoted He as telling Chinese reporters. </DIV>
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<DIV>He seemed to be seeking to limit potential fallout from the Google dispute, which could compound tensions with Washington as Congress heads into an election year and U.S. criticism of Chinese trade practices escalates. </DIV>
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<DIV>Google, the world's top search engine, said it may shut its Chinese-language Google.cn website and offices in China after a cyber attack originating from China that also targeted others. </DIV>
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<DIV>Google said it no longer wanted to censor its Chinese Google.cn site and wanted to talk with Beijing about offering a legal, unfiltered Chinese site. Searches for sensitive topics on Google.cn are still largely being censored. </DIV>
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<DIV>Many in China see Google's ultimatum as a business tactic because its market share trails the popular Chinese search site Baidu, which is strictly censored. Despite extensive public debate of the Google issue in China, hacking has been rarely mentioned in official media. </DIV>
<DIV>Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are blocked in China. </DIV>
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<DIV>Leslie Harris, head of the Center for Democracy & Technology, called Clinton's speech a key first step in bold actions the United States must take "to ensure that the global Internet remains a powerful force for democracy and human rights." </DIV>
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<DIV>Clinton noted that text messages had helped rescuers in Haiti find a young girl and two women trapped in a supermarket after the earthquake and the U.S. text "HAITI" campaign that had raised more than $25 million from mobile phone users. </DIV>
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<DIV>But she warned that Internet technologies were a mixed blessing because along with the benefits of spreading knowledge and empowering citizens, the web is used by al Qaeda to spread hatred and by authoritarian states to crush dissent. </DIV>
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<DIV>"The same networks that help organize movements for freedom also enable al Qaeda to spew hatred and incite violence against the innocent," she said. </DIV>
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<DIV>"And technologies with the potential to open up access to government and promote transparency can also be hijacked by governments to crush dissent and deny human rights," said Clinton. </DIV>
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<DIV>China, Tunisia and Uzbekistan had stepped up censorship of the Internet, while Vietnam had cut access to popular social networking sites and Egypt had detained 30 bloggers and political activists, she said. </DIV>
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<DIV>Saudi Arabia, China and Vietnam had also blocked Internet access to religious information or silenced people of faith, Clinton added. </DIV>
<DIV>The United States recognized limits to freedom of speech and the need to combat use of the Internet to spread hate speech, recruit terrorists or distribute stolen intellectual property. </DIV>
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<DIV>"But these challenges must not become an excuse for governments to systematically violate the rights and privacy of those who use the Internet for peaceful political purposes," she said. </DIV>
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<DIV>The United States was reinvigorating its Global Internet Freedom Task Force, Clinton said. She urged U.S. private firms to look beyond profits to play a "proactive role in challenging foreign governments' demands for censorship and surveillance." </DIV>
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<DIV>The group Human Rights First called Clinton's speech "a major turning point for promoting freedom of expression," and said it hoped the Obama administration would back Internet firms. </DIV>
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<DIV>regards<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>some other perspectives and comments worthy of comparison...</DIV>
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<DIV><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8457647.stm" target=_blank mce_href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8457647.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8457647.stm</a></DIV>
<DIV><BR><a href="http://www.webguild.org/2010/01/google-embarrases-chinese-because-it-could-not-win-here.php" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.webguild.org/2010/01/google-embarrases-chinese-because-it-could-not-win-here.php">http://www.webguild.org/2010/01/google-embarrases-chinese-because-it-could-not-win-here.php</a></DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Nebiyu Yosef<BR>Project Coordinator (DotAfrica)<BR>nyosef@dotconnectafrica.org<BR>www.dotconnectafrica.org<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt" mce_style="font-size: 8pt;">The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] China, a Country which has turned into<BR>a Rogue State<BR>From: Douglas Onyango <ondouglas@yahoo.com><BR>Date: Sun, January 17, 2010 2:41 am<BR>To: africann@afrinic.net<BR><BR>
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<TD vAlign=top>>As a part of this strategy, India should move for isolation of China from Cyber Space by working thorugh ICANN so that China is prevented from tapping into any Internet data from outside its borders without surveillance from the global alliance.<BR>><BR><BR>I believe in so doing, India will be denying benign Chinese users access to information which is a fundamental human right, and if seen from a neutral view point will be considered moot by any court - Indian or International.<BR><BR>Also connecting(isolation) of China or any other country is outside ICANN's purview and hence the later will not give much more than advise which i believe they have plenty of already.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329<BR>Life is the educators practical joke in which you spend the first half learning, and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first was wrong.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 1/16/10, Anne-Rachel Inné <I><annerachel@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=posted-aut-cat><a href="http://www.bloggernews.net/123545" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.bloggernews.net/123545</a><BR><BR>Posted on January 15th, 2010 </DIV>
<DIV class=posted-aut-cat>by <A title="Posts by naavi" href="http://www.bloggernews.net/1author/naavi/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>naavi</A> in <A title="View all posts in All News" href="http://www.bloggernews.net/1category/uncategorized" target=_blank rel=nofollow>All News</A></DIV>Read 222 times.
<DIV>The recent incidents that have indicated that the Chinese Government is behind attacks on the Indian Prime Minsiter’s Office, trying to steal sensitive information is yet another indication that China poses a serious risk to the Global order through its pursuance of the “Cyber Super Power” doctrine.</DIV>
<DIV>It is now revealed that in the attack on Google, China appears to have exploited a vulnerability in Internet Explorer which enabled a remote code execution.</DIV>
<DIV>In this context, we need to recall that in 2003, China forced Microsoft to part with its OS source code to the Chinese Government in order to run its business in China. It now appears that Chinese Government could have misused the trust placed on it by Microsoft by running an organized hacking research on the basis of the knowledge it must have gained by having the access to the Windows source code.</DIV>
<DIV>It is not clear if Adobe has also shared any part of its application source code with the Chinese Government since exploitation of Adobe application is also alleged in some of the attacks emanating from China.</DIV>
<DIV>We can now therefore expect that the global information community is in grave danger due to the possible exploitation of windows and adobe products by the Chinese Government.</DIV>
<DIV>Adobe’s PDF is almost the global document standard just as much as what Windows OS is to the OS market. While the intention of sharing the source code with the Chinese Government by the software giants was in fact acceptable from the point of view of the security of Chinese soverign interest, it is unfortunate that the Chinese Government could have betrayed the trust imposed on them.</DIV>
<DIV>If it is proved that the Chinese Government used the privileged access it gained to the source code to plan and execute exploits, Microsoft must be regretting its decision for having handed over its OS to a master hacker. Now China is even in a position to just push Microsoft out of the market by pirating the entire Windows software itself.</DIV>
<DIV>It is also necessary to remember that Chinese suppliers of Credit Card swiping machines to UK have been caught having doctored the microchips so that copies of Credit card information are sent to Chinese hackers. We have also seen Chinese intrusion into Indian IT companies through which they have planted key loggers to steal information from World Bank.</DIV>
<DIV>If one takes a comprehensive look at these developments, and also observe how China is flooding the global market with computer hardware manufactured in China, one gets a feeling that Chinese Cyber Spies are already well entrenched in the globe. We donot know if backdoors exist in laptops of chinese origin either to disable the computers on a remote call or extract information from the computer from time to time.</DIV>
<DIV>India is aware of the exploits of China in Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, Ladak and other areas in its borders where they show scant regard to the accepted international norms of behaviour.</DIV>
<DIV>As security experts point out, China has a specific road map to dominate the Cyber World and is therefore working overtime to become a champion in Cyber Wars. The developments appear to be similar to the ambitions that Hitler pursued before the Second World War.</DIV>
<DIV>Even US may not be able to counter this development unless there is a global alliance of democratic countries to fight the rogue state that China is developing into.</DIV>
<DIV>We therefore need to develop a comprehensive Cyber Security Strategy to meet the threat of Cyber Warfare from China. Since the threat is global, India should take the lead in developing a Global Cyber Safety Alliance against Chinese Cyber Aggression.</DIV>
<DIV>As a part of this strategy, India should move for isolation of China from Cyber Space by working thorugh ICANN so that China is prevented from tapping into any Internet data from outside its borders without surveillance from the global alliance.</DIV>
<DIV>The alliance should also put appropriate checks on imports of hardware from China and employment of Chinese nationals in IT firms so that all forms of hardware, software and people oriented risks likely to emanate from China are monitored and mitigated.</DIV>
<DIV>While I do admire the ingenuity of China to safeguard its interests for which they have every right, what is objectionable is its aggressive tendencies to encroach on the freedom of other countries. I consider that it is the right of other countries to defend themselves and when it is suspected that China has been supporting “State sponsored Cyber Attacks” on other nationals, the response has to be in the form of a counter strategy by a global alliance. The time appears to be ripe for the formation of such an alliance under the leadership of India.</DIV>
<DIV>The first step in this direction is for the Indian Govenment to register a case of Cyber Terrorism for the attack on the PMO’s office, pursue its investigation and demand support from Chinese Government.</DIV>
<DIV>I urge Mr Chidambaram, the Union Home Minister to take the lead and develop a “Strategy to protect Indian Cyber Space from Chinese Aggression”.</DIV>
<DIV>I also urge CERT-In to assure the Indian Cyber Society with an appropriate action plan to protect Indian Cyber Space from possible Chinese Intrusion.</DIV>
<DIV>Probably Mr Shashi Tharoor should be placed in special charge of this assignment under a separate ministry of “Indian Cyber Space Security”.</DIV>
<DIV>Naavi</DIV></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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