Re:Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, jus...
by yyyk on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:48PM
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Yes it would. All China needs is a correlation. Most users don't input URLs manually, they follow links. So if a user starts from 'taiwan.gov' and goes from there to 'freetibet.org' and 'IhateXi.com'* the firewall would eventually detect from enough matches - even matches with partial hashes - that the user is a 'bad-thinker' and deduct social credit accordingly.
Apple could have tried to avoid helping the Great Firewall (e.g. a proxy could hide times and anonymize IPs) but chose not to.
* fictional names inserted only for example's sake.
Apple could have tried to avoid helping the Great Firewall (e.g. a proxy could hide times and anonymize IPs) but chose not to.
* fictional names inserted only for example's sake.