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Apple may have said that it opposes the idea of weakening encryption and providing governments with backdoors into products, but things are rather different in China. The Chinese parliament has just passed a law that requires technology companies to comply with government requests for information, including handing over encryption keys.
Under the guise of counter-terrorism, the controversial law is the Chinese government's attempt to curtail the activities of militants and political activists. China already faces criticism from around the world not only for the infamous Great Firewall of China, but also the blatant online surveillance and censorship that takes place. This latest move is one that will be view very suspiciously by foreign companies operating within China, or looking to do so.
http://betanews.com/2015/12/27/china-passes-law-requiring-tech-firms-to-hand-over-encryption-keys/
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday December 28 2015, @08:29PM
Note that the media and .gov still think of copying as stealing, and if I have the file that means the source was deleted.
Most likely effect of the chinese .gov having a copy of the encryption keys for the XYZ corp VPN is the local chinese competitor of XYZ corp coincidentally owned by a relative of someone with access, will now now have a copy of the XYZ corp key and probably state sponsored access to the traffic too.
You have to understand the Chinese are more corrupt, than an evil empire dedicated to doing evil. Actually pretty much like the USA, which is kinda funny.