Can anyone (from China) identify these Messaging services? imsg <--... qg <--... qqmesg. <-- https://www.imqq.com/ wwmsg <--... wxmsg <--... yymsg <--... In China, they have a surveillance program on social networks which looks like a jerry-rigged PRISM clone of the NSA.
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From 3.784.309.399 messages, 3.698.798.784 were written in Chinese. 59.378.236 in English and 26.132.379 in another language. 98% of the Chinese messages had a GPS location in China. 68% of the English messages were sent in China. More than 19 million were sent from outside
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We were able to detect a patron of a little bit more than 800 Chinese keywords (combinations) which would be the selection criteria for having the entire WeChat dialogue being stored in this database for further "analysis" by most likely a law enforcement.pic.twitter.com/VCvHp2pSyD
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We could build a "dictionary" of 829 keywords (combinations) based on the intercepted WeChat messages which were written in English. I was a bit surprised to see my full name "Victor Gevers" in this generated English list. 维克多 葛弗斯 was not in the Chinese keyword list.pic.twitter.com/j9NDhqNpmk
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Using these keywords will not get your account locked. But I you try to send your contact a few messages contains a few hundred of these words then you need to “unblock” your account after a few minutes.pic.twitter.com/KwvopraiQQ – mjesto: Hong Kong
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Based on the 3,784,309,399 WeChat messages we tried to build a "keyword trigger list" with NLP tools which possibly triggered the automatic selection criteria for having the entire conversation being stored for review. Image: https://i.imgur.com/PWNQEpe.png Text: https://pastebin.com/raw/LCPyenzC pic.twitter.com/0H8r1N1jBH
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From 3.784.309.399 intercepted messages. 59.378.236 were in English. 19 million were sent from outside Mainland China: South Korea, Taiwan, US, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela, Belgium, France, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, New Zealand & Ireland.pic.twitter.com/7UDRLLIICs
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@riskybusiness show [https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/1121269841040510976 …], and I hear this at 21:50: "We've got politicians in Australia who are using WeChat." Wait!? What? So they can have been one of the 937202 "flagged" conversations recorded in Australia?
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512.2 million WeChat accounts (unique wxids) sent 3,784,309,399 messages on 18-03-2019. 1 billion captured WeChat conversations contained keywords which marked for "review". 59.378.236 were written in English. 19 million were sent from
















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BBC China social media: WeChat and the Surveillance Statehttps://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48552907 …
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Any thoughts on making these public and curatable?
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Yes everything minus the personally identifying information. I was thinking about an online portal were people can check if they were exposed. I don’t know how to contact over 1 billion people yet.
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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