So what happen to the shop that were shut down? Do they get any money from the government or anything? I doubt it. Any way, thanks The Register for this. Here it goes..
The Chinese Government has shut down 17,488 Internet cafes. The official reason for the closures is their failure to block sites considered subversive or pornographic.
Another 28,000 Internet cafes must install monitoring software, required under Government regulations, the Associated Press reports. Many foreign news sites are blocked under the restrictions.
In July, Beijing shut 2,000 cybercafes, and suspended another 6,000 amid fears that the nation's youths were becoming net addicts.
A Shanghai-based Webmaster, Lawrence Sheed, told us that a Beijing TV station recently ran an expose about
Internet cafes and pornography. This prompted a renewed Government crackdown (there was one in April also) and the closures.
However, Sheed says cafes are mostly used by school kids to play network games or chat to mates on the Chinese version of ICQ (is Unreal Tournament considered subversive material?). Browsing the Web isn't much fun when it's all in a foreign language, so that's mostly left to foreigners in the country looking for news.
Around 27 million people in China now use the Internet, of which about 4.5 million rely on Internet bars. Various Democracy advocates and Falun Gong members have used the Internet to spread information the Communist regime considers subversive, resulting in more than a dozen arrests over the last two years for online dissent.
Recently, human rights activists accused Nortel Networks, accusing of contributing to human rights violations by helping the country overhaul its ageing surveillance technology, the 'Great firewall of China'
News source: The Register - China closes 17,488 Net cafes
The Chinese Government has shut down 17,488 Internet cafes. The official reason for the closures is their failure to block sites considered subversive or pornographic.
Another 28,000 Internet cafes must install monitoring software, required under Government regulations, the Associated Press reports. Many foreign news sites are blocked under the restrictions.
In July, Beijing shut 2,000 cybercafes, and suspended another 6,000 amid fears that the nation's youths were becoming net addicts.
A Shanghai-based Webmaster, Lawrence Sheed, told us that a Beijing TV station recently ran an expose about
Internet cafes and pornography. This prompted a renewed Government crackdown (there was one in April also) and the closures.
However, Sheed says cafes are mostly used by school kids to play network games or chat to mates on the Chinese version of ICQ (is Unreal Tournament considered subversive material?). Browsing the Web isn't much fun when it's all in a foreign language, so that's mostly left to foreigners in the country looking for news.
Around 27 million people in China now use the Internet, of which about 4.5 million rely on Internet bars. Various Democracy advocates and Falun Gong members have used the Internet to spread information the Communist regime considers subversive, resulting in more than a dozen arrests over the last two years for online dissent.
Recently, human rights activists accused Nortel Networks, accusing of contributing to human rights violations by helping the country overhaul its ageing surveillance technology, the 'Great firewall of China'
News source: The Register - China closes 17,488 Net cafes
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your details are currently circulating the underworld of anarchists and credit card fraudsters, so we highly recommend that you contact your bank before much fraud is committed. we have also distributed over a million e-mail addresses to marketing and 'spam' organisations, so you will certainly have a lot of fun deleting unwanted e-mail into the future!
online companies can learn many lessons from this compromise -
1. do not use the same root or administrative (oracle, webserv, etc.) user passwords across different hosts on the same network.
2. never assume that by installing the latest security patches and installing ssh, that you are secure.
3. do not use insecure authentication methods, including nis, nis+ or ..rhosts.
4. do not protect your passwords with des in your shadow files, use md5.
end users can learn an important lesson from this compromise -
do not trust companies with your details online.
its been emotional.
its been emotional. we'd like to thank the playboy systems team for providing us with an interesting and challenging target. i'm sure that a big security company will make easy money auditing their systems and hopefully deploying a more secure network - although we'll be back to test it again.
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News source: The Inquirer - Hackers memo to Playboy users
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