Technology companies that want to sell equipment to Chinese banks will have to submit to extensive audits, turn over source code, and build “back doors” into their hardware and software, according to a copy of the rules obtained by foreign companies already doing billions of dollar worth of business in the country. The new rules were laid out in a 22-page document from Beijing, and are presumably being put in place so that the Chinese government can peek into computer banking systems.
Details about the new regulations, which were reported in The New York Times today ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/technology/in-china-new-cybersecurity-rules-perturb-western-tech-companies.html?_r=1 ), are a cause for concern, particularly to Western technology companies.
In 2015, the China tech market is expected to account for 43 percent of tech-sector growth worldwide ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/in-2015-technology-shifts-accelerate-and-china-rules-idc-predicts/ ). With these new regulations, foreign companies and business groups worry that authorities may be trying to push them out of the fast-growing market. According to the Times, the groups—which include the US Chamber of Commerce—sent a letter Wednesday to a top-level Communist Party committee, criticizing the new policies that they say essentially amount to protectionism.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday January 31 2015, @04:21AM
Everyone is demanding back doors. No accountability, or at least *for them*.
At least the word is getting out that the peeping tom is at the window.
The problem is that once that backdoor is implemented, even if one tries to keep it secret, it will eventually get out.
I guess the deciding factor is a judgement call... if this backdoor is implemented, then it falls in the wrong hands, how much damage will be done?
I could see where an untrustworthy communication network, rife with leaks and spoofs, could lead to the downfall of a nation.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]