Chinese shenanigans

[Grumpy Gramps]

It's two in a row. The Adups trojan last week and the Ragentek one this week (here is a list that seems to be up to date). But no-one seems to bother telling us how we can find them on our devices. Odd...

[Yokohammer]

Quite easy to check.

Look at the bottom of the device and if it states "Made in China", it has spyware installed.

Yes.

No kidding.

It's why I never buy Lenovo...

... About 27 percent of Lenovo Group Ltd. is owned by the Chinese Academy of Science, a government research institute. In April, a Chinese Academy of Sciences space imagery expert, Zhou Zhixin, was named to a senior post in the Chinese military’s new Strategic Support Force, a unit in charge of space, cyber, and electronic warfare. ...

Well, that's one hardware supplier I will never purchase from. Unfortunately there's almost no way to avoid MIC stuff these days, and there's no guarantee that non-Chinese manufacturers aren't up to similar shenanigans. A scary world we live in.

[matsuki]

there's no guarantee that non-Chinese manufacturers aren't up to similar shenanigans.

No guarantee but less motivation to spy on people?? (don't think we have much made in the US with built in CIA access)

[wagyl]

there's no guarantee that non-Chinese manufacturers aren't up to similar shenanigans.

No guarantee but less motivation to spy on people?? (don't think we have much made in the US with built in CIA access)

Every now and then I wonder which fantasy world Matsuki spends him time on. It must be nice to visit from time to time.

[Yokohammer]

Hey, ever heard of Edward Snowden?


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[kurogane]

No guarantee but less motivation to spy on people?? (don't think we have much made in the US with built in CIA access)

Every now and then I wonder which fantasy world Matsuki spends him time on. It must be nice to visit from time to time.[/quote]

Oh, is that where it is? I always assumed it was just AmericaLand, the fantasy fun park where only foreigners do bad things.

Nice replies to my smartphone question, btw. Thanks.

here are three good reasons (IMO) to have a telephone system internet connected mobile device:...........

Put like that I get the charm. I don't think I could handle carrying 2 devices like some do and I hated talking on a smartphone the few times I tried it so maybe I'll have to wait for a flip smarty. I agree with Legions comments about their effects, btw, fully, but that's no reason for me not to get one.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Every now and then I wonder which fantasy world Matsuki spends him time on. It must be nice to visit from time to time.

--> FBI hacked over 8000 computers in 120 countries based on one warrant.

[kurogane]

I know what she did last summer

Chinese woman sues over fatal tiger attack
23 November 2016
A woman whose mother was killed by tigers at a Chinese wildlife park has had her lawsuit against the park accepted by a court.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38074374

I find her lawsuit a bit catty, but I suppose she feels the need to claw back some dignity after causing her mother's death. I wouldn't be surprised, however, to see the lawsuit thrown out and her accused of lion under oath. But we'll always have that video.

[matsuki]

there's no guarantee that non-Chinese manufacturers aren't up to similar shenanigans.

No guarantee but less motivation to spy on people?? (don't think we have much made in the US with built in CIA access)

Every now and then I wonder which fantasy world Matsuki spends him time on. It must be nice to visit from time to time.

One where there is a difference between built in firmware and hacking? (and US built keitai don's exist)

As to the links, no doubt the NSA knows what color underwear I'm wearing right now and I'm not too happy about it....but I was referring to the manufacturer's motivation, not the governments. Say a Chinese manufacturer takes a kickback from the gov to build in this kind of shit....are you really surprised? Get caught? Change the name/brand the next day and it's back to business as usual. On the other hand you have other manufacturers, take Apple for instance, that stand to lose more than just some iphone sales if they get caught with their hand in this cookie jar.

[Russell]

there's no guarantee that non-Chinese manufacturers aren't up to similar shenanigans.

No guarantee but less motivation to spy on people?? (don't think we have much made in the US with built in CIA access)

Every now and then I wonder which fantasy world Matsuki spends him time on. It must be nice to visit from time to time.

One where there is a difference between built in firmware and hacking? (and US built keitai don's exist)

As to the links, no doubt the NSA knows what color underwear I'm wearing right now and I'm not too happy about it....but I was referring to the manufacturer's motivation, not the governments. Say a Chinese manufacturer takes a kickback from the gov to build in this kind of shit....are you really surprised? Get caught? Change the name/brand the next day and it's back to business as usual. On the other hand you have other manufacturers, take Apple for instance, that stand to lose more than just some iphone sales if they get caught with their hand in this cookie jar.

Yep, you wouldn't expect this type of behavior from US companies...

[Russell]

Hey, ever heard of Edward Snowden?

Talking about Snowden, here is an impressive statement from him.

I like this guy.

[matsuki]

there's no guarantee that non-Chinese manufacturers aren't up to similar shenanigans.

No guarantee but less motivation to spy on people?? (don't think we have much made in the US with built in CIA access)

Every now and then I wonder which fantasy world Matsuki spends him time on. It must be nice to visit from time to time.

One where there is a difference between built in firmware and hacking? (and US built keitai don's exist)

As to the links, no doubt the NSA knows what color underwear I'm wearing right now and I'm not too happy about it....but I was referring to the manufacturer's motivation, not the governments. Say a Chinese manufacturer takes a kickback from the gov to build in this kind of shit....are you really surprised? Get caught? Change the name/brand the next day and it's back to business as usual. On the other hand you have other manufacturers, take Apple for instance, that stand to lose more than just some iphone sales if they get caught with their hand in this cookie jar.

Yep, you wouldn't expect this type of behavior from US companies...

I was talking specifically about manufacturers but that must be a joke. Besides the locals here, who uses Yahoo for e-mail? (and even then, more tend to have mail addresses like brawnshugaa69@home.nifty.biglobe23.ne.jp ) On the other hand:

Google said it has never received such a request and would respond "no way" if it did, while Microsoft's statement reads, "We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic like what has been reported today about Yahoo."

[kurogane]

I like this guy.

Yes, he is admirable, and he has certainly come a long, steep road. Plus, he's not even a rapey albino or a spastic gender bender: just a nice kid that maybe took civics class too seriously. I wonder and worry whether it was all worth it for him, but at least he seems to be about principles more than prejudice. A shame Obama refuses to pardon him.

[matsuki]

A shame Obama refuses to pardon him.

THIS

...but I think he's a bit butthurt since Snowden showed his initial announcements about surveillance were complete bullshit.

[kurogane]

Well, that and he's always been as Republican as he is Democrat, or as wishy washy as Republicans when it comes to defending personal freedoms. I like him but he was almost just a janitor president. But at least I got to like an American president for a change.

[matsuki]

Well, that and he's always been as Republican as he is Democrat, or as wishy washy as Republicans when it comes to defending personal freedoms. I like him but he was almost just a janitor president. But at least I got to like an American president for a change.

He's hard not to like....but as you say, not exactly the paragon of change as much as the appearance of change.

[kurogane]

Historically I think he'll be seen mostly as an empty suit, but a brilliant, very funny man and a fine opportunistic campaigner, unlike his annointed successor, spotted antique shopping in Nantucket the other day. Feckin cat ladies.

[Takechanpoo]

http://nextshark.com/asian-rugby-player ... ing-chink/
just at this time, i cannot help but admire this chinese. well done!


compare with western societies, in japan how little does this kind of direct physical racism happens at a street corner, except for the institutional racism!

[matsuki]

Ehhh, regardless of "race," dude sounds like a lying cunt based on his testimony when compares to the video...

While the security footage did show Kent falling to the ground, the rest of what happened were not visible as the view of his body was blocked by a parked. The prosecutors believe that it was during that moment when kicked his face twice.

What language is this??

[Coligny]

What language is this??

Eh eh eh ehhhh...

Say the guy answering to Takarambe...

[Taro Toporific]

Japan goes on war footing and prepares for a "new era" of Asian relations.

Japan-prepares-for-war.jpg

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defenseworld.net Japan_Coops_To_Extract_Chinese_Jets

[Russell]

China seized an underwater drone from the US Navy in international waters and says it wants to return it in an appropriate way...

[Tsuru]

defenseworld.net Japan_Coops_To_Extract_Chinese_Jets

Blah blah blah fuck off China.

[Grumpy Gramps]

China seized an underwater drone from the US Navy in international waters and says it wants to return it in an appropriate way...

China’s ministry of defense promised to return a U.S. Navy underwater drone in an “appropriate” manner

A flatpack and an allen key, I guess

[Russell]

Holy frack!

Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as 'airpocalypse' blights half a billion

Tens of thousands of “smog refugees” have reportedly fled China’s pollution-stricken north after the country was hit by its latest “airpocalyse” forcing almost half a billion people to live under a blanket of toxic fumes.

Huge swaths of north and central China have been living under a pollution “red alert” since last Friday when a dangerous cocktail of pollutants transformed the skies into a yellow and charcoal-tinted haze.

Greenpeace claimed the calamity had affected a population equivalent to those of the United States, Canada and Mexico combined with some 460m people having to breathe either hazardous pollution or heavy levels of smog in recent days.

A picture from Henan province, showing more than 400 students sitting an exam on a football pitch after their school was forced to close, was widely circulated on social media:



Lauri Myllyvirta, a Beijing-based Greenpeace activist who has been chronicling the red alert on Twitter, said that in an attempt to shield his lungs he was avoiding going outside and using two air purifiers and an industrial grade dust mask “that makes me look like Darth Vader”.

“You just try to insulate yourself from the air as much as possible,” said Myllyvirta, a coal and air pollution expert.

Others have simply opted to flee.

According to reports in the Chinese media, flights to some pollution-free regions have been packed as a result of the smog.

Ctrip, China’s leading online travel agent, said it expected 150,000 travellers to head abroad this month in a bid to outrun the smog. Top destinations include Australia, Indonesia, Japan and the Maldives.

Jiang Aoshuang, one of Beijing’s “smog refugees”, told the state-run Global Times she had skipped town with her husband and 10-year-old son in order to spare their lungs.

Jiang’s family made for Chongli, a smog-free ski resort about three hours north-west of the capital, only to find it packed with other fugitives seeking sanctuary from the pollution.

“It really felt like a refugee camp,” she was quoted as saying.

Yang Xinglin, who also fled to Chongli, said she had requested time off from her job at a state-owned real estate firm so she did not have to inhale the smog.

“You ask me why I left Beijing? It’s because I want to live,” Yang, 27, told the Guardian.

Emma Zhang, a third “smog refugee”, told the South China Morning Post she and her young son had swapped their home in the western city of Chengdu, which has also been blighted by severe pollution, for a hotel in the temperate south-western province of Yunnan.

“I finally saw the blue sky. It was wonderful!” she said.

Li Dongke, a 27-year-old Beijinger, said her entire family had decamped to Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, or the tropical island of Hainan in the South China Sea. “It’s terrible,” she complained of the current pollution crisis.

Fleeing the danger zone has not been completely straightforward for China’s environmental exiles.

The China Daily reported that smog had paralysed airports in Beijing and across the country’s northern industrial heartland in cities such as Tianjin and Shijiazhuang, making escape impossible.

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[Coligny]

Self solving problem ?

[Russell]

'Brutal, amoral, ruthless, cheating': how Trump's new trade tsar sees China

"Interesting" times...

[Taro Toporific]

M0Ar Chinese shenanigans~

2.5 Tons of Plastic Chinese ‘Rice’ Seized
Epoch Times | December 21, 2016
Officials have seized more than 100 large bags of Chinese plastic “rice,” weighing more than two tons, in Nigeria, according to reports.
The 102 bags of fake rice, weighing 55 pounds each, are labeled “Best Tomato Rice,” All Africa reported. They were found in a store located in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria...
...After boiling, it was sticky and only God knows what would have happened if people consumed it,” customs comptroller Haruna Mammudu...more...

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BBC reports:

Whoever made this fake rice did an exceptionally good job—on first impression it would have fooled me. When I ran the grains through my fingers nothing felt out of the ordinary.
But when I smelt a handful of the “rice” there was a faint chemical odour. Customs officials say when they cooked up the rice it was too sticky—and it was then abundantly clear this was no ordinary batch.

Obviously the whole problem stems from the the fact it was not superior plastic Japanese rice but evil "American style rice."

best tomato rice lagos.PNG

[Grumpy Gramps]

BBC reports:

Whoever made this fake rice did an exceptionally good job—on first impression it would have fooled me. When I ran the grains through my fingers nothing felt out of the ordinary.
But when I smelt a handful of the “rice” there was a faint chemical odour. Customs officials say when they cooked up the rice it was too sticky—and it was then abundantly clear this was no ordinary batch.

Exactly what wifey cooks all the time. Half a bottle of Fernet Branca and half a pack of EVE usually takes care of the aftermath, so no biggie there.

[Takechanpoo]

http://www.excite.co.jp/News/society_g/ ... 77560.html
in new chitose airport, hokkaido, about 100 chinese went berserk to protest flight cancellation because of heavy snow.
you cant change anything even if you act violently, right? ah? fucking homeless-smelling animals.