A notice disclosing the 149,000 RMB purchase of mobile phone hacking software on the official website for the Wenzhou Public Security Bureau has been taken down after it caused a stir among netizens.
The notice detailed the purchase of two products from the Wuhan Hongxin Telecommunication Technologies Co. One was a program that allowed them to inject Trojan Viruses into Android and unlock iPhones, and the other allowed users to monitor phone conversations, text messages and photos in real time.
The notice was hastily taken down and the Hongxin phone number that was listed in the notice appeared to be disconnected, when called by Reuters.
The post and Hongxin have both been strongly condemned by netizens whilst many wumao’s scrabbled to point out that America did it first.
Source: Reuters.
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mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KG0WB20150107?irpc=932 Police in China disclose contract for mobile phone snooping By Gerry Shih .....The deleted page, which is still viewable in Google's cache, showed the Wenzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone's public security bureau awarding two contracts to Wuhan Hongxin Telecommunication Technologies Co, a subsidiary of a major information technology company affiliated with China's central government. Chinese government agencies routinely disclose procurement contracts on their web sites in a nod toward transparency, but the Wenzhou police probably did not intend to share with the world the descriptions of their purchases. ......The revelations threaten to tarnish the reputation of Wenzhou, which China has promoted as a model for a "smart city" that boasts interconnected telecoms systems and cloud computing capabilities. Many users of Weibo, China's microblogging network, slammed the police and software company. "Is it right for the police to be doing mobile spying in such a high-profile way?" said one Weibo user, Yang Haifeng. "How impressive that Wuhan Hongxin has these products!........" --------------- Of course not, the leak wasn't intentional.
Jan 10, 2015 11:55 Report Abuse
'The post and Hongxin have both been strongly condemned by netizens whilst many wumao’s scrabbled to point out that America did it first.' Apparently these wumaos didn't learn chinese history well enough.....
Jan 08, 2015 17:33 Report Abuse
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