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A friend of mine has a startup in China. He told me a year ago that the law already required his company to talk with government officials every month. They als

A friend of mine has a startup in China. He told me a year ago that the law already required his company to talk with government officials every month. They also needed to create a backdoor API according to a well-written specification for the government to access all the information in the database.

TheSpiceIsLife 11y ago
well-written specification That may very well be the defining difference between the Chinese and Western-governments.
- astrostl 11y ago
  "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa
  - enraged_camel 11y ago
    I think "selectively enforced" is a better way to put it.
    - slowmovintarget 11y ago
      No, Frank Zappa had it best. Your words may be more accurate but his words are better.
      - ekianjo 11y ago
        The point he was making was right. It's not randomly enforced at all, it's enforced only when it pleases the government.
        dasil003 11y ago
        But the government is not a single actor with agency, from the outside it might as well be random. +1 Zappa.
    - jackcosgrove 11y ago
      Salutary neglect is as old as the colonies, boy.
forumuid 11y ago
Lawful interception( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception) : "Almost all countries have LI capability requirements and have implemented them using global LI requirements and standards developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)"
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  Lawful intercept does not provide encryption keys. The two are much different.
  - forumuid 11y ago
    just for the "well-written specification" by timguoqk ,the Lawful interception alse include," If the data are not obtained in real-time, the activity is referred to as access to retained data (RD)", by the way,according the link cited by others(http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/27/10670346/china-passes-law-to-access-encrypted-communications http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/27/10670346/china-passes-law...),“the new law does not require that companies operating in China hand over encryption keys” why all the guys just believe what they want to believe?

TheSpiceIsLife 11y ago

well-written specification That may very well be the defining difference between the Chinese and Western-governments.

astrostl 11y ago
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa
- enraged_camel 11y ago
  I think "selectively enforced" is a better way to put it.
  - slowmovintarget 11y ago
    No, Frank Zappa had it best. Your words may be more accurate but his words are better.
    - ekianjo 11y ago
      The point he was making was right. It's not randomly enforced at all, it's enforced only when it pleases the government.
      - dasil003 11y ago
        But the government is not a single actor with agency, from the outside it might as well be random. +1 Zappa.
  - jackcosgrove 11y ago
    Salutary neglect is as old as the colonies, boy.

forumuid 11y ago

Lawful interception( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception) : "Almost all countries have LI capability requirements and have implemented them using global LI requirements and standards developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)"

jlgaddis 11y ago
Lawful intercept does not provide encryption keys. The two are much different.
- forumuid 11y ago
  just for the "well-written specification" by timguoqk ,the Lawful interception alse include," If the data are not obtained in real-time, the activity is referred to as access to retained data (RD)", by the way,according the link cited by others(http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/27/10670346/china-passes-law-to-access-encrypted-communications http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/27/10670346/china-passes-law...),“the new law does not require that companies operating in China hand over encryption keys” why all the guys just believe what they want to believe?