China demands real names online, bans parody accounts and news article comments From March 1, people in China must reveal their real names before they can join social networks and use other websites – or face cyber-exile. The ban on pseudonyms, plus the removal of reader comments from web articles, is a further crackdown on privacy and freedom of speech in the Middle Kingdom. According to the Cyberspace …
So are you saying is that in order to do it right everything has to be like this picture of a cat?
Well if you know that's what the sanitizer will do to the image, make your original file a 800x600 256-colour PNG. Or use video or any other type of binary file large enough to hide a payload.
I find it difficult to believe that the authorities could checkmate a whole country full of millions of clever people.
Most of the clever people in China ARE in the government. And they could mix it up so that no matter what kind of format you feed into it, it'll come out in some serious way different enough to mangle just about any stego you could dish out. This can also apply to video clips which can have aggressive modifications or encoding settings put in to try to mangle hidden data.
The Red Queen gets very 'upset' if she doesn't win. This is a very old story.
Next: chaotifying relays.
Then: punishment for possession/use
Then: innocence by 'viral infection'. Epidemic. Terribly unfortunate.
Then: guilt through ignorance
Then: subversion of government-mandated backdoors
Then: The Red Queen gets angry. Off with their Net.
Then: The Red Net. The Old Net is only allowed in sanctioned establishments with full id/camera/keylog surveillance.
Then: Dancing in the mirror, copying your reflection.
Then: Weather interrupts play.
1) A quick look at comments and names, El Reg will be banned in China.
2) These are the same folks, who with Russia, want the <cough> UN muppets <cough> to take control of the Internet.
On the other hand <sarcasm on> They are at least somewhat honest in what they want to promote and it's not keeping Chinese citizens safe from terrorists, etc. etc. <sarcasm off>
Will the chinese gov't be giving free credit monitoring to the inevitable victims of identity theft?
Seriously though won't this start a witch hunt of sorts? Unless there was some sort of state sponsored net login that all chinese ISP's enforce how can they really know who posted what? Or is that already the case? Without some form of authentication then anyone could pose as someone else to post anti-government messages to get them arrested. What about malware that infects a device? Stolen phones. People breaking into homes and using the internet. Stealing wifi access. What about families/friends sharing the same internet connection? There are countless scenario's where there is no 1:1 correlation to a real person.
Maybe the Gov't plans on using metadata, writing styles, etc to form a data fingerprint of everyone? Closer and closer to literal thought police?
"Will the chinese gov't be giving free credit monitoring to the inevitable victims of identity theft?"
No, because odds are they'll be the thieves. The idea is that the ONLY encryption they'll allow is the type they can backdoor. They don't care too much if the proles get bit by hackers because they'll be part of that group, and any official Chinese business done within the government itself can use the strong stuff as they please.
"I think there might be a slight flaw in China's plans to collect names."
I think you might be slightly mistaken, when they say "real names" they mean your ID number which all Chinese citizens are supposed to have and are presumably unique.
"The UK and US are using China's policies as a textbook. Both the FBI and the UK's Prime Minister David Cameron want the same thing."
I think this is a case of China copying the UK & US, since the latter (and especially the latter latter) already have frontdoors and backdoors into most of the internet.
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