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New comment by beatle_sauce in "“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”"

beatle_sauce — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:12:36 +0000

Does Wechat on Windows have a similar feature?

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions"

beatle_sauce — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:20:03 +0000

Is this basically the learning parity with noise problem, but instead of a fixed size vector, the noisy output is generated in by a PRNG with a pre-determined secret seed? How can this be used for authentication or encryption?

China Cybersecurity: No Place to Hide

beatle_sauce — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 03:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chinalawblog.com/2020/10/china-cybersecurity-no-place-to-hide.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24762121

Points: 8

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New comment by beatle_sauce in "China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet"

beatle_sauce — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:09:44 +0000

As you can find in one of his articles, he deducted his findings from from job descriptions and articles in newspapers (Renminribao, Xinhua):

Xinjiang's rapidly evolving security state, Zenz et al., 2017

http://www.academia.edu/download/52174157/Xinjiangs_Rapidly_...

New comment by beatle_sauce in "China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet"

beatle_sauce — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:30:10 +0000

Please take information with a grain of salt that tries to discredit the researcher, without even mentioning the actual argument. You might not agree with his world view, but Zenz found hard evidence of repression in Xinjiang and uncovered a Chinese government financed program for forced sterilization.

If you are Chinese, be aware that any state-control model that works in Tibet or Xinjiang might also be transferred to other parts of China. The current political trajectory might continue. Xi Jinping is still young, he might be president for the next 30 years.

New comment by beatle_sauce in "China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong"

beatle_sauce — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:49:50 +0000

The core of the communist party follows an unambiguous agenda.

John Garnaut described this very well in his speech "Engineers of the Soul"

https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Audio Datasets for Machine Learning"

beatle_sauce — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:51:36 +0000

IMHO the speech dataset list is missing other interesting free corpora, e.g. the TEDlium dataset, Voxforge, Common Voice. A more comprehensive (but not complete) list can be found here: https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/tree/master/egs (download links can be found in the scripts)

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November"

beatle_sauce — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:18:30 +0000

There was an article in China News Weekly that investigated the origins of the Virus and also pointed out that 1) the first cases were in November and 2) that the first cases were not linked to the Huanan Seafood Market.

https://chinachange.org/2020/02/09/the-regret-of-wuhan-how-c...

New comment by beatle_sauce in "China sets up Hong Kong crisis center in mainland"

beatle_sauce — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:14:40 +0000

The pro-Beijing camp expected the support of the "silent majority" in the election, which did not exist, but was reported by the Liason Office.

The problem: "The people in charge of manipulating Hong Kong public opinion for the CCP [the Liason Office] are also the people charged with reporting on their own success." Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/25/hong-kong-election-beij...

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Microsoft's “Love” of Linux"

beatle_sauce — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:55:56 +0000

Same with document formats: MS Office Open XML instead of just supporting the existing OpenDocument Format (ODF) as open standard.

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Factual Inaccuracies of “Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound”"

beatle_sauce — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 19:50:47 +0000

The flaw I care about most: The lack of transaction privacy.

New comment by beatle_sauce in "China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide"

beatle_sauce — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:00:53 +0000

The law is called MPLS 2.0, also see the follow-up blog post.

New comment by beatle_sauce in "[dead]"

beatle_sauce — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 07:57:23 +0000

Agree. There is evidence that such a law will be used for political purposes.

See the case of the Huawei CFO Meng Hongwei that was about sanction violations. She was arrested in Canada and is about to be extradited to USA. The extradition bill extends this power (to retaliate) for the CCP to Hong Kong, an economical hub in Asia.

As anecdotal evidence, see the case of Cathay Pacific, an airline company based in Hong Kong that makes business in China: There were anti-extradition demonstrations at the airport, and some employees of Cathay participated. The CCP demanded their names and their immediate layoff. Instead, the CEO only named himself on the list, and was promptly removed.

However, this sends a strong signal: If you occupy a leading position in a company that may be "on the list" (e.g., listing Taiwan as a country, company based in Canada/USA, employees participated in demonstrations, or "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" in any way), don't go to Hong Kong anymore.

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests"

beatle_sauce — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 01:48:49 +0000

IMHO, the Chinese influence over the law system will damage HKs economy more than the protests in the long term. "Protests damaging HK" is a narrative that seems to be pushed in Chinese state media.

I recommend: https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/08/hong-kong-for-internati...

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers"

beatle_sauce — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:17:53 +0000

> It isn’t known, even to some members of the consortium, how the coin will work or what their roles will be, people familiar with the project said.

Such a stablecoin still requires a regulatory approval process before roll-out.

Just as a reminder that there are open alternatives, GNU Taler would offer a more privacy-oriented stablecoin with an already clear specification, but has not yet been adopted by banks that require the regulatory approval. On the mailing list, the developer wrote that they work on the two missing features needed for approval (cross-device synchronization and an integrated backup solution).

New comment by beatle_sauce in "The Man Who Built the Bauhaus"

beatle_sauce — Mon, 20 May 2019 10:04:47 +0000

There is a whole district in Tel Aviv in this style, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City_(Tel_Aviv)

Reaver: Mapping Connections Between Disparate Chinese Apt Groups

beatle_sauce — Fri, 17 May 2019 08:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/reaver-mapping-connections-between-disparate-chinese-apt-groups.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19937439

Points: 3

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New comment by beatle_sauce in "U.S. blacklists Huawei"

beatle_sauce — Thu, 16 May 2019 07:34:08 +0000

Gallium nitride technology is used for the higher frequencies in 5G chips. Currently only suppliers outside of China produce such chips.

From a business perspective, pushing 5G as fast as it is pushed now by China, does not make sense. Chinese network operators would not want to deploy 5G quite as fast as they are being forced to, but China’s government is imposing it.

So why impose it? There might be several reasons, e.g. to have a dominant position in setting industry standards, but one reason stands out: The complex 5G standard requires frequent software that make it harder to enforce security software reviews and anti-espionage measures.

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo"

beatle_sauce — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:44:27 +0000

This is currently listed as the most starred repository on Github with 153k stars:

https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E0&s=stars&type=Reposi... (There was the freeCodeCamp repo with 300k stars, but I don't see it in the list anymore.)

I am surprised that this protest does not get more media coverage. Also, Alibaba and Huawei are in the list of companies...

New comment by beatle_sauce in "Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)"

beatle_sauce — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:05:48 +0000

There is an excellent overview over their speech recognition system. http://iscslp2018.org/images/T4_Towards%20end-to-end%20speec...