China Visitors, Encrypt Your Data

China Visitors, Encrypt Your Data: "Smart phones, blackberries or laptop computers could unwittingly offer up sensitive personal or business information to officials who monitor China's state-controlled telecommunications carriers.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's blocking of Web sites has embarrassed the International Olympic Committee, but a computer security expert said on Thursday that visitors to Beijing also needed to protect their data from prying eyes.
'People who are going to China should take a clean computer, one with no data at all,' said Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive of security software firm PGP Corp."

Una razón más para usar encripción, aunque la realidad es que no sólo en China sucede...

Saludos,

Jorge Avila