Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/03/0035224 Posted by: timothy, on 2004-07-03 06:44:00 Topic: censorship, 53 comments from the enlightenment-by-fiat dept. maggeth writes "Early reports on the AP (via Yahoo) indicate that [1]China will begin monitoring and censoring SMS communications in real time. China's 'great firewall' is infamous, but the move to censoring SMS has been slow due to technological roadblocks. Algorithms are used to identify key words and combinations of words that might be associated with 'political rumors and "reactionary remarks,"' and the system automatically notifies local police. Something to think about on your Fourth of July weekend!" Reader ackthpt adds links to [2]coverage at the BBC [3]and The Register, asking "What next, a massive government database system to track every message and contacts between people?" [4]Click Here References 1. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&u=/ap/20040702/ap_on_re_as/chin a_mobile_phone_surveillance_3&printer=1 2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3859403.stm 3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/02/china_text_snoop/ 4. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4195&alloc_id=9769&site_id=1&request_id=5368172&op =click&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]