leverage over Lei

Shanghaist has further notes on the Chongqing sex tape affair, perhaps the first signature scandal of the Xi Jinping era, which we note is gaudy, attention grabbing, quickly resolved, involved a mid-level official and tied back to a previously discredited individual:

Between 2002 and 2006, while Lei was Dianjiang County Party Secretary, he allegedly took advantage of his position to grant a number of lucrative contracts to his brother's construction company, pocketing a large sum of money for himself in the process. By 2007, after Lei had been promoted to Vice Party Secretary of Chongqing's Jiulongpo District, Lei's personal fortune had grown to the extent that developers effectively found him impossible to bribe.

One developer discovered Lei's weakness for women however, and set about hiring a number of attractive young girls, all under 20-years-old, and using them to set a "honey trap" for Lei. The women, after becoming Lei's mistresses, would secretly video themselves having sex with the corrupt official, giving their employer leverage over Lei.

I guess is just goes to show that you can have a classic British style tabloid expose under the most robust regulatory regimes.

Elsewhere, the NYT has part two of its Wen Jiabiao family interests expose. This involves legislative insider dealing affecting the insurance industry. Boring but glorious, lads. Boring but glorious.

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[Alex]

China internal chaos watch: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21/wi_fi_knockout/

Loads of people have those little pocket-wifi hotspot gadgets. Some of them hack them to make them put out more transmitter power, or buy from shanzhai suppliers who don't care about the EIRP limits. Unfortunately, Shenzhen Metro's block signalling system runs in the 2.4GHz open slather microwave ovens/WiFi/door openers/IED command links/whatever band. This is an *OH, THE HUMANITY!* decision. Fortunately, the signals do fail-on-danger, so when 7 people turn up on the same train with their gadgets and the link drops, the signals go red and the trains just stop rather than colliding.

I wonder why you'd want to juice the Tx power on a MiFi. It's not as if you'd use them to cover a large area. Use cases: 1) Deliberate denial of service or man-in-the-middle attack on WiFi networks. 2) Mesh networking the MiFis so you can share porn with other users without the PSB knowing you're at it.