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from the 1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual dept.
http://mashable.com/2017/07/21/china-spyware-xinjiang/
China has ramped up surveillance measures in Xinjiang, home to much of its Muslim minority population, according to reports from Radio Free Asia.
Authorities sent out a notice over a week ago instructing citizens to install a "surveillance app" on their phones, and are conducting spot checks in the region to ensure that residents have it.
— Delinda Tien (@TienDelinda) July 14, 2017
The notice, written in Uyghur and Chinese, was sent by WeChat to residents in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.
Android users were instructed to scan the QR code in order to install the Jingwang app that would, as authorities claimed, "automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, e-books and electronic documents" stored in the phone. If illegal content was detected, users would be ordered to delete them.
Users who deleted, or did not install the app, would be detained for up to 10 days, according to social media users.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @04:16AM (2 children)
Was he right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @04:58AM
Ted Kaczynski was right. Industrial society has brought about the bad future.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday August 06 2017, @12:46PM
Was Theodore "Unabomber" Kaczynski right? Possibly, yes and no. Clearly bombing people and airplanes wasn't the greatest idea he ever had but it apparently made sense to him, and he is paying for that now. Reading his "manifesto" (Industrial society and its future) was actually quite interesting and in parts spot on and this from something being written and sent out in 1995. It's way above the norm for the type of manifestos that crazy serial-bombers/killers/whatever tends to write. You can download it and it's just about 30ish pages long so it's not a very long read, compared to as an example Breiviks 1515 page manifesto (2083 – A European Declaration of Independence) which is mostly complete drivel and copy-paste at it's best (I stopped reading if fairly quickly as it's quite horrid, perhaps it gets better towards the end, but I doubt that). Kaczynski wrote something that is clearly a well thought through academic paper which isn't all that odd since he was actually educated, and Breivik didn't or wasn't.
Perhaps it says something else, typing something out on a typewriter compared to just using a word processor might have you think things through more since there is no easy way to edit text and correct mistakes made a long the way. That said not all things written on typewriters are great, the 20ish page SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas from 1967 as an example is not as well thought though as Kaczynskis manifesto, but still way better then Breiviks manifesto.