Alexa Olesen reports: China began requiring identification on Wednesday from anyone purchasing a new mobile phone number in what it says is a bid to stamp out rampant junk messages but that some say gives the government a new tool for monitoring its citizens. The rules apply to everyone, including foreigners visiting China for a…
Category: Non-U.S.
Turkey launches wiretap investigation
A top military commander in Turkey has requested the army to investigate widespread allegations of illegal wiretapping against thousands of people. The scandal-scarred Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Aslan Guner said in a written statement on Monday that an administrative investigation had been launched upon his request to probe the allegations, Turkey’s daily the…
India Threatens Ban On Google, Skype
Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry messaging traffic, Indian authorities have now set their sites on Google and Skype. As they did with RIM, authorities in the country are demanding access to data that flows across Google’s and Skype’s servers. “The notices to these entities will be…
Orange Spain disclosing user phone number
From the Certificate Error blog: I’m currently assessing how mobile operators modify and enrich HTTP headers. I´ve already analyzed the main operators in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK with very interesting results I´ll publish soon. […] During the assessment I found that Orange Spain is adding the user MSISDN in any HTTP request sent…