<story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>Is it me or is this an extremely clumsy way of doing censorship?&lt;p&gt;Why not do this at network or server-side level? Why not use some kind of hash (ala Apple&amp;#x27;e proposed child pornography hunter)?&lt;p&gt;In this design, everyone would have to have this plain text configuration file ... also other brands (Oppo, Huawei etc.) would have to have it. What if it needs an update? Suppose the hui muslims starts causing trouble ... Or if people starts using slang or deliberate misspelling ...</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>From the shared PDF page 23...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It has been established that during the initialisation of the system applications factory-installed on a Xiaomi Mi 10T device, these applications contact a server in Singapore at the address globalapi.ad.xiaomi.com (IP address 47.241.69.153) and download the JSON file
MiAdBlacklistConfig, and save this file in the metadata catalogues of the applications. A list of applications for which the MiAdBlacklistConfig file was found in metadata catalogues is presented in Table 13.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;...
&amp;quot;Once the applications have downloaded the file, the download date is recorded in order to facilitate periodically updating the list. The scheme for downloading the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Figure 11.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This file contains a list composed of the titles, names and other information of various religious and political groups and social movements (at the time of the analysis, the MiAdBlacklistConfig file contained 449 elements). A fragment of the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Table 14.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Extract from table 14....&lt;p&gt;===================================================&lt;p&gt;No.: Original - Approximate translation&lt;p&gt;1 &amp;quot;宗教虔信者阵线&amp;quot;, “Front of religious believers”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;22 &amp;quot;西藏自由&amp;quot;, “Free Tibet”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;60 &amp;quot;蒙古独立&amp;quot;, “Independence of Mongolia”,&lt;p&gt;61 &amp;quot;89民运&amp;quot;, “89 Democracy Movement”,&lt;p&gt;62 &amp;quot;基督灵恩布道团&amp;quot;, “Christian charismatic mission”,
...&lt;p&gt;145 &amp;quot;伊斯兰联盟&amp;quot;, “Islamic League”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;201 &amp;quot;民运&amp;quot;, “Democratic Movement”,&lt;p&gt;202 &amp;quot;妇女委员会&amp;quot;, “Women’s Committee”,&lt;p&gt;203 &amp;quot;伊斯兰马格里布基地组织&amp;quot;, “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”,&lt;p&gt;204 &amp;quot;人民报&amp;quot;, “People’s daily newspaper”,&lt;p&gt;205 &amp;quot;巴勒斯坦解放组织&amp;quot;, “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”,&lt;p&gt;=======================================================</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>&amp;gt; Why not do this at network or server-side level?&lt;p&gt;China doesn’t control the network&amp;#x2F;servers in Lithuania and other countries. Doing it client-side gives them the power to extend their reach.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>Is it me or is this an extremely clumsy way of doing censorship?&lt;p&gt;Why not do this at network or server-side level? Why not use some kind of hash (ala Apple&amp;#x27;e proposed child pornography hunter)?&lt;p&gt;In this design, everyone would have to have this plain text configuration file ... also other brands (Oppo, Huawei etc.) would have to have it. What if it needs an update? Suppose the hui muslims starts causing trouble ... Or if people starts using slang or deliberate misspelling ...</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>From the shared PDF page 23...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It has been established that during the initialisation of the system applications factory-installed on a Xiaomi Mi 10T device, these applications contact a server in Singapore at the address globalapi.ad.xiaomi.com (IP address 47.241.69.153) and download the JSON file
MiAdBlacklistConfig, and save this file in the metadata catalogues of the applications. A list of applications for which the MiAdBlacklistConfig file was found in metadata catalogues is presented in Table 13.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;...
&amp;quot;Once the applications have downloaded the file, the download date is recorded in order to facilitate periodically updating the list. The scheme for downloading the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Figure 11.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This file contains a list composed of the titles, names and other information of various religious and political groups and social movements (at the time of the analysis, the MiAdBlacklistConfig file contained 449 elements). A fragment of the MiAdBlacklistConfig file is shown in Table 14.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Extract from table 14....&lt;p&gt;===================================================&lt;p&gt;No.: Original - Approximate translation&lt;p&gt;1 &amp;quot;宗教虔信者阵线&amp;quot;, “Front of religious believers”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;22 &amp;quot;西藏自由&amp;quot;, “Free Tibet”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;60 &amp;quot;蒙古独立&amp;quot;, “Independence of Mongolia”,&lt;p&gt;61 &amp;quot;89民运&amp;quot;, “89 Democracy Movement”,&lt;p&gt;62 &amp;quot;基督灵恩布道团&amp;quot;, “Christian charismatic mission”,
...&lt;p&gt;145 &amp;quot;伊斯兰联盟&amp;quot;, “Islamic League”,&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;201 &amp;quot;民运&amp;quot;, “Democratic Movement”,&lt;p&gt;202 &amp;quot;妇女委员会&amp;quot;, “Women’s Committee”,&lt;p&gt;203 &amp;quot;伊斯兰马格里布基地组织&amp;quot;, “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”,&lt;p&gt;204 &amp;quot;人民报&amp;quot;, “People’s daily newspaper”,&lt;p&gt;205 &amp;quot;巴勒斯坦解放组织&amp;quot;, “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”,&lt;p&gt;=======================================================</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>I guess it comes down to, &lt;i&gt;why bother when the simplest solution works&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;Make no mistake: As and when they get caught out doing such things, the sophistication of their implementation is bound to increase, in response to it. Money is no object for state-actors and mega-corps.</text></comment>