Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: GXU@kentvm.bitnet (Xu, Gang) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: (none) Message-ID: Date: 8 Jul 89 00:48:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 42 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 226, message 1 of 11 [Moderator's Note: This party passed along the message which follows, which appeared on Usenet recently. Thank you for sending it! PT] From: rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (Rupert Zhu) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: Beijing People Fear Phone Tapping ---- revealed in Beijing Youth News Tapping Fears ============= (Quoted from The Times "Jiang Eases up on Deng's Hard Line") June 29, 1989 Catherine Sampson, Peking ========================= Telephone tapping has become so common in Peking that Peking Youth News has been trying to reassure the public that all is well. But the article is hardly one to bring comfort to its readers. It is one of the first to acknowledge that Peking is a city living in fear. "In recent days," it says, "people in Peking who normally love to make phone calls have suddenly become cautious, and many of them say on the phone `Let's write or chat face to face instead, otherwise we might get into trouble.'" There are rumours that all phones are being tapped, or that advanced scanning equipment is being used, according to the article, entitled "You do not have to be on tenterhooks when you make a phone call". Mr. Zhao Jizhi, a senior engineer at the telecommunications management bureau, said that half of the 280,000 phones in Peking were computer- programmed, and could not be tapped. The other half could be tapped, but were not -- there were far too many of them. And in 30 years, Mr. Zhao had never heard of scanning equipment. ================================= End ========================================= Information Exchange Rupert Zhu (in Canada) rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (Elsewhere)