Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has done another Chinese browser with the same results they got on Baidu's browser. Quoted below:
Similarly, the Windows version sends personally identifiable data, including the URL of all pages visited in the browser, a user’s hard drive serial number, MAC address, Windows hostname, and Windows user security identifier, also without encryption or with easily decrypted decryption.
So, are we supposed to believe this is a coincidence that the two browsers they checked were sendung this info back to China? When Baidu was asked if it was government policy, they declined to answer.
There is a good article in today's Wall Street Journal on this subject that is worth reading. It mentions three browers, Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba. There seems little doubt this is government policy at work here.
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