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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by timguoqk on Monday December 28, 2015 @06:37PM (#10804159)
A friend of mine has a startup in China. He told me a year ago that the law already required his company to talk with government officials every month. They also needed to create a backdoor API according to a well-written specification for the government to access all the information in the database.
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday December 28, 2015 @07:31PM (#10804369)
well-written specification

That may very well be the defining difference between the Chinese and Western-governments.

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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by astrostl on Monday December 28, 2015 @08:13PM (#10804528)
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by enraged_camel on Monday December 28, 2015 @08:28PM (#10804593)
I think "selectively enforced" is a better way to put it.
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by slowmovintarget on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:28PM (#10804808)
No, Frank Zappa had it best. Your words may be more accurate but his words are better.
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by ekianjo on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:39PM (#10804850)
The point he was making was right. It's not randomly enforced at all, it's enforced only when it pleases the government.
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by dasil003 on Monday December 28, 2015 @11:16PM (#10805162)
But the government is not a single actor with agency, from the outside it might as well be random. +1 Zappa.
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by jackcosgrove on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:47PM (#10804881)
Salutary neglect is as old as the colonies, boy.
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by forumuid on Monday December 28, 2015 @07:38PM (#10804398)
Lawful interception( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception) : "Almost all countries have LI capability requirements and have implemented them using global LI requirements and standards developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)"
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by jlgaddis on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:19PM (#10804774)
Lawful intercept does not provide encryption keys. The two are much different.
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Re:China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryp... by forumuid on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @04:40AM (#10805946)
just for the "well-written specification" by timguoqk ,the Lawful interception alse include," If the data are not obtained in real-time, the activity is referred to as access to retained data (RD)", by the way,according the link cited by others(http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/27/10670346/china-passes-law...),“the new law does not require that companies operating in China hand over encryption keys” why all the guys just believe what they want to believe?
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