Li Dong Wei

080529日记

昨天回家了，取了点补给。因为要些数学论文周末就不回家了，这几天姐姐仍然陷在失恋的痛苦中不能自拔，能说的大家也都说了，能做的大家也都做了，现在就靠她自己了，希望他没事今年早走出失恋的阴霾。如果可以我希望我可谓替她来承担。
今天发补助了，还是20块，已经知足了。最近在和Terry发邮件，一个在youtube上认识的朋友，他很喜欢中国，他对自己的国家-美国，有着自己不同的看法，感觉他人不错。跟他交流我还可以涟漪下我那没过四级的英语。今天来上自习了，本该昨天就来的，但是回家了。上自习的人不多。
明天还要广播操比赛。今天晚上去包宿，适当的娱乐还是可以的，虽然我天天上网但是一直都在弄我的博客，没有玩。虽然些博客是件开心的事，但也需要一些其他的娱乐活动，比如魔兽世界。还有就是我从来没有玩长久过，我要玩个大好满级出来，那才叫玩过，淡然这都会在不影响我写博客和学习的情况下进行的，否则我会马上停下来的。
今天接到了一个话题邀请，哈哈又有钱赚了。还接到来那个个参见活动的礼品，抓虾的马克杯和来自阿里妈妈的神秘礼物，是什么都还不知道，都只是添了地址，还没有收到呢，期待中。。。
给小为邮的礼物还没有收到，差了一下居然还没有发出来，给客服些了信才发出来，下次埋东西得留个提前量了。

080527日记

下周小玮过生日，在网上看到了一本去年热销的书，英文版的。看着不错系网她能喜欢看他她是不喜欢的了，一直到现在都没来取，也需是忙吧，但愿如此。最近调整了一下博客的关注方向，我发现人们对我前段时间翻译的文章一点都不敢兴趣。也许是太枯燥了吧，下一步准备跟这搜索引擎走，投其所好，访问我博客的人都是从搜索引擎来的，毕竟这是他们想看的。
今天数学建模老师过来了，在他那哪了题准备试一下，这事都党务好几天了，我们学校的另一个队都交了。我们只有一周多的时间了，但是我们虽好还是试一下努力一下。这几天物理课上和刘冰茹俗话说了很多，简单的考虑了一下毕业以后的事情-考研。这是个问题，好的学校都找不到好工作，更何况我们这样的学校呢。还得往上考啊，不然一点竞争力都没有，既然要考研就要从现在开始，我己经比别人晚了一步了，所以更要努力了，当我迷迷糊糊到教室的时候，他们已经学一个多小时了。哪一想象啊。
还有个原因让我下定决心考研，那就是姑奶给我举的例子。这个谁考验了，那个谁目标靠清华了，必能应该考个好点的本科云云，到不是姑奶墨迹，因为那些都是事实，必须面对的事实。过去的事情都已经是历史了，我能把握的就是我的未来了，为了我的未来有希望我得考研。
第一次听到别人对爸爸不一样的评价，感觉有些意外。更意外的是听到了一些事实，感觉不是很舒服，这都是过去的事情了。
这周不能在家呆太久，打算周六就回来建模要紧啊。

080525周记

这周过的迷迷糊糊，过的很快没有留下什么记忆。整天浑浑噩噩的，没有目标。这周右在网上买了点东西就。周末参加了一个姐姐的婚礼，和三叔喝了点酒，说了点话。改变了我的一些看法。

haha

i am here

The Great Firewall of China

Charles R. Smith
Friday, May 17, 2002

Beijing Developing Electronic Chains to Enslave Its People

For nearly a thousand years the Great Wall of China protected the Asian empire from foreign invasion. Today, red China is installing a great “firewall,” hoping to stem the tide of foreign ideas from invading the authoritarian one-party state.

Despite claims to be an open society, China has an extraordinary fear of free information. For example, when President George Bush recently visited the Shanghai economic conference inside China, the communist government removed blocks on the Web sites of several U.S. news services.

Immediately after President Bush left Shanghai, the paranoid red forces quickly re-imposed the Internet blocks. Today, the ordinary Chinese citizen cannot indulge in reading the perverted online views of CNN or the Washington Post.

Chinese authorities have shut down more than 17,000 Internet cafes since April 2001. The Internet cafes were guilty of allowing Chinese citizens to surf without special blocking software required by the central government. In addition, the Chinese authorities ordered another 28,000 cafes to install special monitoring software, allowing the local police to watch the Internet browsing of customers.

The Case of Huang Qi

Chinese information oppression often goes much farther than simply shutting down illegal Internet web browsing. In June 2000, Huang Qi, a computer engineer from Chengdu, was arrested for putting up an online missing persons search website.

Huang ran afoul of the communist authorities when he assisted in the return of seven girls abducted from their homes by a slave trading gang. Unfortunately for Huang, the gangsters had connections of their own inside the hierarchy of the local red government.

The red police confiscated Huang’s computer equipment and shut down his web site. Communist authorities later charged that Huang was guilty of “organizing national separatism, destroying national unity” and “subverting the socialist system.”

“The following night, June 6, I was taken to a detention center, where the authorities assigned a fellow inmate to monitor me,” Huang wrote in a letter recently smuggled out of jail.

“The inmate ordered me to sleep next to the urinal. My head rested only 60 centimeters from the genitals of inmates as they relieved themselves, drenching me in their urine,” wrote Huang.

“Every night, I was put in heavy shackles and tasted urine as my head rested near the urinal. … If I put myself in danger to rescue seven missing girls from the countryside, help over 2,000 families reunite, sell all my belongings to start a missing persons search service to help people and make it possible for thousands of people to air their grievances, please tell me how this can be considered as attempting to subvert the government?”

In August 2001, Huang was tried in a closed court. No verdict or sentence has ever been announced. A government official told Huang’s wife, “After your husband is sentenced, don’t expect your son to go to school or to have any future.”

Corporate Partners in Oppression

The central communist government has willing partners in stomping on people like Huang. Western companies, lured by promises of big contracts, have been eager to obtain contracts in red China in order to help build its great “firewall.”

U.S.-based Cisco Systems and Canadian-based Nortel Networks are working closely with the People’s Armed Police developing oppressive and intrusive computer systems to monitor, track and prosecute illegal Internet web browsers.

Nortel has contracts with Datang Telecom, a Chinese firm that works closely with the Chinese Ministry of State Security. Nortel has provided its “Personal Internet” suite to the MSS, allowing authorities to monitor and track nearly half of China’s individual Internet users.

Nortel is currently working with the communist authorities in Shanghai to build a “Shasta 5000” firewall. The firewall allows the red thought police to monitor and track subscribers who access Internet web sites judged inappropriate by the communist government.

Western companies are working closely with the red police to track every citizen in China, developing everything from smart-card IDs to phone-tapping equipment. For example, Nortel is currently working with Qinghua University on speech-recognition technology for automated tapping of telephone conversations.

Ironically, Nortel was a strong and early supporter of the U.S. FBI plans to develop a national telephone surveillance system. The Chinese division of Nortel manufactured the first electronic systems accepted by the FBI as the new standard for American phone taps in Guangdong.

Chinese Police Armed With U.S. Equipment

The Chinese People’s Armed Police (PAP) is also well equipped with U.S.-made equipment to track, identify and quickly jail any dissidents. Sun Microsystems has a contract with the Public Security Bureau to make use of instant computer identification of fingerprints.

In 1995, the Clinton administration allowed the PAP to purchase $100 million in Motorola secure radios and cell phones. Documents obtained from the Ron Brown Commerce Department show that in June 1995, then-President Bill Clinton personally OK’d the export of Motorola secure radios and cell phones directly to the PAP with the stroke of his pen on a waiver.

Clearly, the Chinese security police might have some conversations to hide on its Motorola secure radio system. The PAP is the uniformed strong arm of the communist party. It is PAP’s job to enforce the laws of the party, including the execution of dissidents, beating of the Falun Gong and the forced abortion of pregnant women who do not have a license to be pregnant.

In 1998, Harry Wu confirmed that PAP officers are currently equipped with Motorola radios. Wu was arrested and eventually deported from China. Wu reported that he was quickly identified by Chinese security police officers after they checked his records on an American-made computer system.

According to Wu, the Chinese police officials were in real-time contact with the main office’s computers in Beijing, using an American-made satellite uplink. After his arrest, the officers escorted him to prison, taking their orders over American-made secure radios from Motorola.

Human Rights Are an Obstacle

Despite the U.S. assistance, China continues to maintain a false image of a friendly power. In May, during an official visit with bipartisan members of the U.S. Congress, China’s Vice President, Hu Jintao, talked about the importance of open discussions between China and the United States. Hu is the leading candidate to replace current Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

Hu then refused to accept four letters from members of Congress delivered by House Democratic Whip Nancy Pelosi. The letters raised human rights issues and urged China to release political prisoners.

“I had been hopeful that we could at least talk about human rights issues in China and Tibet,” stated Rep. Pelosi.

“But Mr. Hu’s refusal demonstrates how serious the problem remains. China’s human rights abuses continue to be an obstacle in developing the full potential of relations between our two countries.”

Electronic Chains to Enslave

I have news for Rep. Pelosi. The kinds of checks and balances in American justice are not present inside the red Chinese totalitarian state. Congress should consider the sale of advanced surveillance and monitoring technology to China as an obstacle to developing the full potential of relations.

The use of sophisticated U.S. technology to track, monitor and oppress should also serve as a warning here in the United States. There are many here who would willingly trade their freedoms for the shallow veneer of security offered by a police state.

Suggestions such as Smart Card national IDs, micro-chip implants, and intrusive video, telephone and computer taps are just a few modern inventions that even George Orwell never dreamed of. The electronic chains to enslave should neither be made here nor exported to enslave others.

Beijing has much to fear. The U.S. military has warships, airplanes, missiles and computer warriors poised to strike at the Chinese army on command. However, the greatest threat to Beijing is not the American war machine. It is the truth.