China Disrupts WhatsApp Texts as Censor Tools Grow More Powerful
- Great Firewall disrupting WhatsApp intermittently in China
- China tightens censorship with new tools to block the service
China Blocks WhatsApp in Latest App Crackdown: NYT
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China is tightening the screws on Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp, honing and employing cutting-edge surveillance technology to disrupt the messaging service as part of a longer-term crackdown on its online spheres.
The latest disruptions are affecting users intermittently across the world’s second largest economy, intensifying a blocking effort that began around July but has gotten more sophisticated in ensuing months, said Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptographer at Paris-based online security firm Symbolic Software.