China Forces Muslim Minority to Install Spyware on Their Phones

[brambedkar59]

Chinese authorities in the province of Xinjiang are forcing locals of the Uyghur Muslim minority to install an app on their phones that will allow the government to scan their device for "terrorist propaganda," local media reports.

In reality, the app creates MD5 hashes for the user's files and matches them against a database of known terrorist content.

The app also makes copies of the user's Weibo and WeChat databases and uploads it to a government server, along with the user's IMEI, IMSI, and WiFi login information.

Read the complete article here.

 

[NikolayfromRussia]

What is wrong going with this world

 

[Syafiq]

What's wrong with Muslim people ? Muslim is not terrorist ! Why China suspects that muslim is terrorist ? In Indonesia, muslim is a majority, but we never disturbing minority religions. Oh My God, why this happen

 

[jamescv7]

In short that actions occurred are already in a desperate way, considering that in order to crackdown the possible intruders like so called 'terrorist' then aggressive implementation will happen. (in short collateral damage)

Of course it's wrong cause does not undergone due process.

 

[Atlas147]

Not surprising seeing as the China government are already censoring their own citizens by deleting messages without informing the people sending and receiving them.

Source: China’s internet censors allow one-on-one complaining, but won’t let you gripe in group chat

 

[jogs]

They actually may want to do this to everyone in the country. But one thing is that the users know that they are being spied on unlike the NSA thing where users actually don't get to know anything.

 

[Solarlynx]

That's pretty rude. Other countries seem to be smarter concealing they are spying on citizens.

 

[Fritz]

Well I sure hope muslims who don't have a mobile phone will receive one for free then.

 

[brambedkar59]

That's pretty rude. Other countries seem to be smarter concealing they are spying on citizens.

Yeah, they should be more polite about it . Maybe they should give free Amazon vouchers for being spied on. Something like Google Rewards.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

That's pretty rude. Other countries seem to be smarter concealing they are spying on citizens.

LOL.. Yeah they should be 'nicer' about it, like our govt. Hehe. Honestly though, I think it's more nefarious to spy covertly like our govt. but our govt. has no choice because what they are doing is largely a violation of the constitution and breaking the law in most states.. In China they can say they are doing it, openly.

 

[Transhumana]

LOL.. Yeah they should be 'nicer' about it, like our govt. Hehe. Honestly though, I think it's more nefarious to spy covertly like our govt. but our govt. has no choice because what they are doing is largely a violation of the constitution and breaking the law in most states.. In China they can say they are doing it, openly.

Didn't some sort of spying and surveillance of citizens by government become legal with Patriot Act even though it goes against the constitution?

 

[tonibalas]

As always when a government want's to spy their citizens it just finds a lame excuse to do it.
And here is today's example: all muslim are possible terrorist. Yeah right

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Govts are all parasites when you think about it. A parasite will do virtually anything to preserve it's own existence and when it can't preserve it, it will usually take the host down with it. There are good people working in the govt. however there are much more incredibly evil and self serving people there. The good people are usually taken out, taken down, or leave in frustration after awhile.

It's not a swamp, it's a sewer.

 

[codswollip]

One day all phones will be required to have this capability.

 

[Dave Russo]

Politics,religion's beliefs,though heart felt and not insignificant really I hope have no place on this site,kind of like an emotional virus, gl

 

[ispx]

Govts are all parasites when you think about it

& that parasite has infected silicon valley :

Aadhaar integration now available on Skype Lite - Microsoft News Center India

 

[BoraMurdar]

Please exclude politics, religion and judging nations in general manner. MalwareTips is not a place for this. Thank you

 

[BoraMurdar]

Bora,
With all due respect and understanding of Your messages and I do not mean to be rude or answer you back unpolitely:
What about talk about "rush-ian malware" or "chai-neez malware" then?
Where do we put the limit?
Thank You.

Limit is no line or boundary here, at least not a clear one. Let your line be that every discussion on MalwareTips should flow in Security waters. These are very sensitive subjects and themes, and we are having members and guest visiting the forum from all over the world.
Just keep the discussions at technical level. If you think that some post or thread is breaking the rules, please use the Report button.
Thank you!

 

[Fritz]

I think the disturbing part is, that basically person x is treated differently for belonging to group y and/or believing in z. All variables subject to change according to the respective agenda.

Whatever the variables may be, I don't care for that concept at all.

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

This is just China doing China, the smart thing is for those of us here to wake up as a security community
and see the effects this may and or will have, and keep it from spreading by being well read on the subject
and passing it on.
I don't employ Chinese Security software, but if I did it would be smart to "take notice"