Reach Out and Bust Someone   7/3/2004 - 875 views,

Summary: China, that country which recently won the prize for having the highest number of hosted websites being advertised in spam, has initiated the monitoring of SMS messages for contents "that might be associated with political rumors and "reactionary remarks", using technology which it ...

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China, that country which recently won the prize for having the highest number of hosted websites being advertised in spam, has initiated the monitoring of SMS messages for contents “that might be associated with political rumors and “reactionary remarks”, using technology which it had developed at the goverment-run Chinese Academy of Sciences, according to an AP report this week.

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