Researchers at Canada’s Citizen Lab have spotted a phishing campaign and supply chain attack directed at Uyghur people living outside China, and suggest it’s an example of Beijing’s attempts to target the ethnic minority group.
Many Uyghur people, a Muslim ethnic majority, live in China’s Xinjiang province and according to the United Nations are subjected to “serious human rights violations” including arbitrary detention, may be forced not to use their own language, and are subject to discriminatory government policies that create “interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights.
Some Uyghur people have moved abroad, and formed a group called the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) to lobby for their people’s rights. According to Citizen Lab, “several senior members” of the Congress living outside China were sent emails that “impersonated a trusted contact at a partner organization and contained Google Drive links that, if clicked, would download a password-protected RAR archive.”
That archive contained a Windows version of an open source Uyghur text editor called UyghurEditPP. Citizen Lab thinks members of the WUC know the application’s developer, who has also worked on optical character recognition software for Uyghur script and speech recognition software for the Uyghur language. That prior relationship means recipients would likely trust the sender.
Can’t wait to see what all the folk from ML make of this…
Denial that there is any oppression. Or even that the Uyghur people exist as a culture at all.
They will not make anything of it. It’s willful ignorance and they’ll stay silent. Brush this off as propaganda and move on within their delusional filter bubble.
The willful ignorance is liberals believing all propaganda their wall street owned politicians tell them
lol, Wall Street doesn’t give a shit about the Uyghur people.
Keeping red scare propaganda alive as justification for war is very much in the interest of wall street
Stop believing that any of the super powers are good guys.
Found em
Theres a reason the term BlueMAGA exists
Yea, to suppress the US left vote to allow Right-wing nuts like Drump and Muskytina to get into power.
Soooo much better!/s
You are trying to imply Democrats are left. Democrats are firmly right wing
Sorry bud I’m not from Mericuh.
Don’t have to be American to be BlueMAGA
subjected to “serious human rights violations” including arbitrary detention, may be forced not to use their own language, and are subject to discriminatory government policies that create “interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights.
short side observation: how is this any different from the USA today?
Hey folks, gather up. This is what a whataboutism in disguise looks like.
If that was my goal, I would not have explicitly pointed out I was making a side observation…
And that’s why I said “in disguise.”
oh yes, that’s me trying to fool the brilliant minds of the internet hahaha
“It’s not whatabautism if I don’t explicitly say ‘What about…’”
In any case, answering your point, the degree is very very different, so not similar at all.
It isn’t. But we’re talking about China right now, not the USA
100% I was just shocked at reading that line and being unable to make the distinction
The difference is that in the USA about 10 million Americans have been out in the streets protesting all of the fascist regime’s abuses. The judicial branch of the US gov’t is also making efforts to block illegal abusive actions with moderate success. The difference is that in the USA we have the rights to fight these things.
well considering the close ressemblance, hope you win
