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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?

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To: jbe who wrote (8178)10/13/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (3) of 13994
 
Most of the fringe parties operate with some paranoia about
surveillance by the parties in power. They see themselves as being
oppressed by the two-party systems. For the most part, they seem to
feel threatened by the Republican party. I've talked to some Lyndon
Larouche followers and the Socialist newspapers are all vehemently
anti-Republican. For all these totalitarian movements to be
pro-Democrats and anti-Republicans must say something about how
screwed up the Democratic party must be...

If you go the WorldNet site, there is an article in the Chinese paper
on internet surveillance of political dissidence and crime also.

Internet criminals 'threat to security'

AGENCIES
Computer police must raise Internet security
standards to catch the growing numbers of criminals
lurking on China's expanding information highway,
the People's Daily warned yesterday.

More than 100 cases of computer crimes had been
detected in the past two years, the most serious
case involving the theft of 10 million yuan (HK$9.3
million).

"For the sake of national security and sovereignty,
we must fight well in this battle in safeguarding our
network security," said the paper.

Internet surveillance was hampered by an inefficient
computer police force, out-dated computer
protection equipment imported in the 1980s and the
slow development of protection products.

The paper estimated assets worth 500 billion yuan
were exposed on the Internet and there were about
700,000 Internet users on the mainland.

An expert team of "Internet police" was needed to
protect investments against hackers using the
worldwide computer network, the paper said. But
it admitted there would be "a process" before China
could groom enough "Internet police" to protect its
networks.

Government attempts to police the Internet have
focused on filtering out pornography and political
messages from pro-democracy activists and
Taiwanese or Tibetan independence movements.

The first regulation protecting computer systems
was issued in 1994 along with the first criminal law
against computer crime.

But it was only last year that the authorities enacted
a criminal law making it illegal to break into
computer systems and set a maximum five-year jail
term for a conviction.

scmp.com
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