2022_beijing

I really wanted to believe in this but the "evidence" is pretty poor: https://github.com/jonathandata1/2022_beijing I read a lot of security reports and you don't include a screenshot of random Wireshark packets with red arrows saying "This shows data leaving the iPhone". And this is the first one of a series of non-sense screenshots. This means at least one thing: this was written in a way to be picked up and mentioned by larger media and non-tech people. So, to me it sounds more like if someone with a stake in all this said "Hi researcher. Here are 10K USD. Find me something controversial to shout about on Twitter and to point fingers. Just add some technical terms here and there and we'll be fine.".

It doesn't, actually. The original Chinese https://github.com/jonathandata1/2022_beijing/blob/6bcb2cc48... is 明镜网 and it's only translated as "Der Spiegel" because the Chinese news website https://www.mingjingnews.com/ is less famous than the German newspaper.

It also includes "Der Spiegel", a German newspaper (one of the most influential one in Germany). https://github.com/jonathandata1/2022_beijing/blob/main/ille...

It's probably basic stuff that has to be in most Chinese apps, but I found the list of illegal words really interesting: https://github.com/jonathandata1/2022_beijing/blob/main/ille... It's a mixture of spam filtering ("... for sale", gambling, drugs/weapons) and swearwords, that you'd expect to find in western apps as well. But there are also a lot of phrases about the CCP, dissidents and Tibet/Taiwan.