Skype’s president is responding to reports of a security breach in a Chinese-based surveillance system tied to the service. The flaw, reported Thursday (PDF), was discovered within the Tom-Skype software used throughout China. A public interest group found that private messages were not only being collected, but also were being stored on a [...]

Everyone can rest at ease: Skype says it’s helped fix a “security flaw” within a user messaging surveillance system. The system, though, seemingly still exists.
It’s mainly in China, if that makes you feel any better. A report (PDF), by public interest group Information Warfare Monitor (affiliated with Citizen Lab), found Skype’s China-based service [...]

A Chinese man is facing criminal charges over having porn on his personal computer. The man says the Nanyang City Public Security Bureau Internet Squad showed up at his property just days after he was married. They searched his PC, found a 30-minute adult video — then confiscated the computer and fined him [...]

Millions of young Chinese are addicted to unhealthy online games, a committee of China’s National People’s Congress reported. “Unhealthy” games in Chinese government standard refers to those that feature violence, pornography, and unpatriotic games.
Because of this, the Chinese government is calling for stricter monitoring of “unhealthy” Internet games, recommending that games should automatically log off [...]

As China opens to the world, the mysteries of the far East are revealed, and by all accounts this includes cats with wings.
The Sichuan cats started sprouting wings over summer, although reports are scant at this stage as to whether they’ve managed take off as yet. More pics at the Mail.

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China has blocked all access to domain registrar GoDaddy, according to a report by censorship blog Moonlight. The block started before the end of the Olympics, Moonlight says, and can be traced to a router within China’s China Telecom service provider.
So what’s the real story here? We checked with the folks at GoDaddy, [...]

It was meant to be the event that showed the world how China had evolved, but the latest news coming out of Beijing this final Friday of the Olympics only adds to the list of newly exposed negative imagery.
The newest tidbit is about iTunes and China’s apparent blocking of the site in the midst of [...]

Following on the in the footsteps of fake fireworks, a fake singer, and fake 16 year old gymnasts, the latest fake scandal involving the Olympic games is delivered by fake minorities.
According to reports, the children appearing in costumes representing China’s 55 minority groups at the Olympic opening ceremony were fake. The children were performers from [...]

The news that television footage of the fireworks shown outside the stadium at the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony were computer generated fakes has spread online in the last 48 hours, but the latest news will be an even bigger shock: the 7 year old girl singing (China’s version of Nikki Webster) was not only miming, [...]

The award to the funniest translated sign in China goes to “Translate Server Error.” What next, 500 server error?
(via adweek)

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An American living and working in Shanghai was jailed for one week for riding a motor cycle without a Chinese driver’s license or an International driving permit. For a week he was put in a small cell with nine other Chinese prisoners.
The reactions are mixed with some people saying the sentence was too harsh, [...]

According to this New York Times article four bloggers have been arrested for spreading false rumors that the government avoided signs that an earthquake was imminent.
“…officials announced the arrest of four people for spreading quake-related rumors on the Web and said they would be punished, although the officials did not describe the punishment or nature [...]

I’m not sure where these were taken, or even in they’re legitimate, but the Chinese State Media is running them. Google Translate delivers the headline “Sharp slowdown with strong road! Also effective than the traffic police.”

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