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It is shocking to see a post from Qihoo 360 appear on the official golang blog. This company is notorious for at least the following: * Their flagship products
by xiaq 11y ago
It is shocking to see a post from Qihoo 360 appear on the official golang blog. This company is notorious for at least the following:
* Their flagship products, "360 Security", provides an alternative Windows-update facility; they take use of this to disguise another product of theirs, "360 Browser", as a Windows update: http://www.ipc.me/360-fa-bu-jia-xi-tong-bu-ding.html http://www.ipc.me/360-fa-bu-jia-xi-tong-bu-ding.html (Chinese source)
* "360 Security" and "360 Browser" spies extensively on the user, including uploading "suspicious" files for their "cloud antivirus" service, uploading the browsing history: http://www.ce.cn/cysc/tech/07hlw/guonei/201302/26/t20130226_21431285.shtml http://www.ce.cn/cysc/tech/07hlw/guonei/201302/26/t20130226_... http://tech.163.com/10/1231/17/6P8I1JPR000915BF.html http://tech.163.com/10/1231/17/6P8I1JPR000915BF.html (Chinese source)
* "360 Security" was caught cheating in AV software tests: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919554/tencent-qihoo-antimalware-firms-are-accused-of-cheating-stripped-of-rankings-in-antivirus-tests.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919554/tencent-qihoo-antimal.... More interestingly, after the denunciation from the test bodies, Qihoo 360 pretended that it quit the test voluntarily and announced that these tests are no longer suitable for "Internet-era AV software".
* They recently announced a "pregnancy mode" in their router product, due to widespread concern about the effect of WiFi signals on the fetus.
Their wrongdoings are uncountable.
- MichaelGG 11y ago> They recently announced a "pregnancy mode" in their router product, due to widespread concern about the effect of WiFi signals on the fetus. That's the worst one of all as it contributes to people making stupider decisions and believing dumb stuff.
- marme 11y agoit is impossible to get chinese people stop believe these kinds of things even after they move to america most will continue to believe this kind of stuff. They believe all electronic equipment especially computer equipment give off radiation that is harmful to fetus, to combat this they will wear special maternity clothes that are lined with aluminum foil that acts as a faraday cage. if you ever see a pregnant chinese girl wearing weird overalls this is that special clothing, if you put your cell phone in the pocket it will immediately lose all signal. They also believe cactus absorb radiation and will keep them on their desk.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoNot a very effective cage at microwave frequencies what with all the gaping holes. Could just as well be a waveguide channeling more radiation onto snowflake. A segway mounted sarcophagus would be more suitable.
- ttflee 11y ago> it contributes to people making stupider decisions and believing dumb stuff In the cell phone of a Chinese, such messages are ubiquitous. Taking the WeChat app by Tencent Inc. for example, I constantly read messages from my parents sharing such nonsense stories. They wouldn't stop even if you complained as their friends and alumnae shared these constantly. Subjects of the nonsense included but were not limited to: a) pseudosciences, e.g., Japanese scientists discovered that water molecules behaved differently when it was being scolded verbally; b) misinformation, like an explosion occurred or a child was taken by human traffickers, which could not be confirmed or the time of which is not specified at all; c) false/suspicious political/historical rumours which favours their targets (i.e. my parents); d) success stories and other click baits. These stories were poorly made up but easily spread. Some were made in commercial purposes to attract more subscribers so that their network of rumours could expand. You cannot fight them all. You cannot sue them all. You cannot eradicate them all.
- gowild 11y agoQihoo also has a tight connection with China's GFW
- cooleng 11y agoQihoo is one the notorious companies in China which block Google. It is ridiculous its article published in golang.org.
- jsno2 11y agothis is not true. Qihoo is an public company. They are listed in NYSE. and their stock go strong since IPO.
- methou 11y agoQihoo was known to help Chinese govt preventing people from bypassing GFW, but not the one blocks Google. The one suspected notorious Company which helped GFW to grow is Baidu.
- gowild 11y agoTry google Qi Xiangdong, president of Qihoo, and inventor of some GFW patents.
- JSno 11y agothis is not true. Qihoo is an public company. They are listed in NYSE. and their stock go strong since IPO.
- no4clipper 11y ago, which is not worse than Google/MSFT/Facebook having tighter connections with NSA PRISM.
- xname 11y agoYou have definitely NO idea what you are talking about. Chinese government can directly read all your emails and private messages from a Chinese internet company without any legal requirement at all, and leaves no record.