Think about it. EVERY computer in China is forced to have a form of malware/spyware. They makes EVERY computer in China have one common software door. One common target. Murphy's Law operates particularly actively in software engineering. No matter how much money they throw at it, how many firing squads they threaten their contractors with, it WILL have bugs and flaws ripe for explotiation. It will NOT have the same sort of update system as Vista.

I guarantee that if this goes through, it will be a home-grown Chinese programmer who wants to surf without Big Brother who inadvertently reveals an exploit in all of the domestic and corporate (and if the government is particularly stupid, even military) computers and opening the doors to every blood-thirsty, fame-hungry hacker group on the planet.

The irony is from all these semi-tin foil hat rumours about China sponsoring a lot of cyber-warfare and hacking US systems. If it's true, they are essentially adding an Achilles heel to their domestic computer infrastructure and slowly bending over for karma.

Until that happens though, China will essentially have the largest zombie-net on the planet disguised as a Big Brother act. Bet you didn't consider that did you?

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Not to say it is or will be used to block 'political' sites like it will be in China, but the technology is there.

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