Security forces with black masks and machine guns on the streets of China's capital are just the more visible side of a security clampdown in the country this month: there is also its secretive battle to control the Internet.
Developers in countries like China, India, and Brazil are much younger than are programmers in other parts of the world. And they're more likely to use open source.
China appeared to block Twitter across the country and Internet access in a western province on Monday, after ethnic riots killed at least 140 people in the remote region.
A Chinese company that has created a massive database of malware found on Chinese Web sites opened up the information to other security organizations on Thursday.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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