Also, I have a five minute talk at Google IO 2013 Ignite on the subject. It starts at about 16 minutes in here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhHSd59qNcQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player Nathan of Guardian <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Sarah Lai Stirland <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Hi everyone -- I'm curious as to whether anyone on here has used >>WeChat, >>what they think of it, how they use it, and what it provides that >other >>communications tools don't. > >It provides a really nice backup system for all of your messages, >address book, photos and audio located in Shanghai. Unfortunately only >the Chinese authorities have access to it. > >It also ensures you don't accidentally send messages about unharmonious >topics, like corruption, graft and human rights. > >It also does away with pesky security features like HTTPS and the need >for backdoors, since as we have learned in the case of the NSA, no one >should have anything to hide, unless they are up to no good. > >Finally, it provides an excellent means for diaspora dissident groups >like the Tibetans and Uyghurs to have their social graphs mapped, and >geolocation tracked. > >In short, it is a smashing success for the CCP and the PSB, and has >already resulted in the arrests of a number of splittists, who just >thought it was a great way to send "free" international messages. > >> >>Is there is an American version of this that anyone uses? > >The American version is the same as the Chinese version, and same as >what is popular throughout SEA. It is China's version of PRISM just >wrapped up in a shiny app package. Brilliant! > >+n8fr8 > >-- >Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by >emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings >at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
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