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Philippine President Aquino compares China to Nazi Germany - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/06/phil-f06.html

On February 4, Philippine President Benigno Aquino, speaking in an exclusive interview in Malacañang presidential palace with New York Times Hong Kong bureau chief, Keith Bradsher, compared China and its role in Southeast Asia to that of Nazi Germany in the lead up to the Second World War.

Aquino likened the disputed portions of the South China Sea to the Sudetenland, annexed by Hitler in the lead up to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. He stated that “the Philippines faces demands to surrender territory piecemeal to a much stronger foreign power and needs more robust foreign support for the rule of international law if it is to resist.”

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Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Their Phones - NYTimes.com
▻http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/why-snowdens-visitors-put-their-phones-in-the-fridge

Before a dinner of pizza and fried chicken late Sunday in Hong Kong, Edward J. Snowden insisted that a group of lawyers advising him in the Chinese territory “hide their cellphones in the refrigerator of the home where he was staying, to block any eavesdropping,” as my colleague Keith Bradsher reported.

Why a refrigerator? The answer does not, as some might assume, have anything to do with temperature. In fact, it does not matter particularly if the refrigerator was plugged in. It is the materials that make up refrigerator walls that could potentially turn them into anti-eavesdropping devices.

“What you want to do is block the radio signals which could be used to transmit voice data, and block the audio altogether,” Adam Harvey, a designer specializing in countersurveillance products explained. Refrigerators made from metal with thick insulation could potentially do both, he says, regardless of whether it is mild or icy within.