Blogging Phenom Goes Cellular
NewBay Software, a Dublin, Ireland-based startup, is offering FoneBlog, a software system for carriers that extends the practice of Weblogging, or "blogging," to cell phone users. With the software, consumers can create and maintain personal Web sites from any messaging-enabled phone. :: This News Factor report demonstrates that you will soon be able to update a web page from anywhere. Human rights workers witnessing state brutality can now report live from the field, missionaries can file real time reports of persecution, and civil libertarians can stay one step ahead of big brother, for a while at least.
Friday, January 17, 2003
China Blocks Internet 'Blog' Site
China has blocked an Internet site used by more than one million people worldwide to post on-line diaries, known as blogs, users and its developer said on Wednesday. :: This CNN report reminds us that even the freewheeling Internet can be tamed by a government bent on oppressing the people.
China has blocked an Internet site used by more than one million people worldwide to post on-line diaries, known as blogs, users and its developer said on Wednesday. :: This CNN report reminds us that even the freewheeling Internet can be tamed by a government bent on oppressing the people.
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Secret Document Outlines Anti-Church Campaign in China
A confidential document entitled “Work Plan of the Baoding Municipal Public Security Bureau to Prohibit Christian Illegal Activities” calls for specific action against unregistered house church Christians in Hebei province in the months leading up to the Communist Party Congress in November last year. The document states the aim of the repressive campaign, “to protect legal [religious activities] and to prohibit illegal ones; to resist infiltration and to strike down criminal acts … and to ruthlessly strike down all cult activities masquerading under the banner of Christianity.”
A confidential document entitled “Work Plan of the Baoding Municipal Public Security Bureau to Prohibit Christian Illegal Activities” calls for specific action against unregistered house church Christians in Hebei province in the months leading up to the Communist Party Congress in November last year. The document states the aim of the repressive campaign, “to protect legal [religious activities] and to prohibit illegal ones; to resist infiltration and to strike down criminal acts … and to ruthlessly strike down all cult activities masquerading under the banner of Christianity.”
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Even 'Erased' Hard Drives Hold Info
So, you think you cleaned all your personal files from that old computer you got rid of? Two MIT graduate students suggest you think again. Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49 contained "significant personal information" — medical correspondence, love letters, pornography and 5,000 credit card numbers. :: This AP report certainly gives missionaries operating in closed societies more reason than ever to take care in how they use computers.
So, you think you cleaned all your personal files from that old computer you got rid of? Two MIT graduate students suggest you think again. Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49 contained "significant personal information" — medical correspondence, love letters, pornography and 5,000 credit card numbers. :: This AP report certainly gives missionaries operating in closed societies more reason than ever to take care in how they use computers.
Chinese Internet Dissident Put on Trial
Human Rights in China reported Wednesday that police in Shanghai have sentenced the leader of an underground Christian church to 18 months in a labor camp.
Human Rights in China reported Wednesday that police in Shanghai have sentenced the leader of an underground Christian church to 18 months in a labor camp.
Monday, January 13, 2003
Christians Begin to Fight Terrorism on Knees
Prayer movements across the country are rallying support for a major prayer effort intended to keep the United States safe from terrorist attack. The Homeland Security Prayer Initiative urges Christians to unite in 91 days of concerted prayer, through April 1.
Prayer movements across the country are rallying support for a major prayer effort intended to keep the United States safe from terrorist attack. The Homeland Security Prayer Initiative urges Christians to unite in 91 days of concerted prayer, through April 1.
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