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THE resignation of the chair person and some other members of the Central Board of Film Certification in India raises a controversy. In India, irrespective of whichever government is in office, adults are not allowed to have even the freedom of viewing scenes which may have political, moral, sexual and other kinds of physical content which officials may think corrupt their minds. The attitude betrays authoritarian and narrow- minded guarding of received notions and values. Kissing and intimacy are now being shown in Indian films, though in small doses. However , warnings against smoking and drinking are displayed whenever such acts are shown on screen, along with the pointless statement that the actors do not indulge in either vice. What a pity if that goes with a film like Devdas or I will cry tomorrow! Woody Allen did not have one of his recent films shown In India for that reason. Indian DVDs of international film classics are also sometimes subjected to cuts, for instance, of Fellinis La Dolce Vita. There was a joke that during the prime ministership of Morarji Desai, even Hamlet was banned because Claudius was shown drinking out of a goblet. Freedom of expression in cinema is sometimes bridled to protect obscurantism as was done in the case of Water for some time and when UP chief minister Mayavati wanted to clamp down on Samrakhshan on a mistaken notion about the content. Indian censorship should at least approximate to what is done in the advanced countries. Censorship should be done by an independent body. There should be no political or sectarian interference. But, of course, liberty should not degenerate into licence. Self-censorship should be ideal but based on intelligent understanding of creative imagination. It is hard to understand why some scenes of Titanic which won 11 academy awards were take out in India while a film like Dirty Picture could be shown without cuts.

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Microsoft's Outlook email service in China was hacked by the country's censorship authority, an internet watchdog has claimed, as the government continues its crackdown on U.S. technology giants. Greatfire.org, which monitors censorship in China, said that Microsoft's servers were subject to a so-called man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, enabling hackers to intercept private emails between users. A Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC they were aware of "a small number of customers impacted by malicious routing to a server impersonating Outlook.com." It is hard for a victim to detect this type of attack because the man-in-the-middle is often just eavesdropping and mining the data being sent. In this instance, hackers targeted the technology which communicates with Microsoft's servers and enables users to access emails on their smartphones. "We suspect that the Cyberspace Administration of China, which is directly in charge of censorship is directly responsible for the MITM attack against Outlook, and the recent related MITM attacks in China," Greatfire's report said. The attack follows a complete block of Google's Gmail in China and highlights the way in which Chinese authorities are allegedly tightly controlling communication in the world's second-largest economy.

--- Arjun Kharpal, CNBC

First published January 20 2015, 7:22 AM

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Microsoft Outlook 'Hacked' by Chinese: Watchdog

The watchdog called this form of attack which affects mobile devices when emails are being downloaded automatically in the background as "especially devious."

"The warning messages users receive from their email clients are much less noticeable than the warning messages delivered to modern browsers," Greatfire's report said.

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The Microsoft spokesperson added: "If a customer sees a certificate warning, they should contact their service provider for assistance."

When a user opened their inbox on their phone, a message popped up which said the identity of the email server could not be verified. But the Greatfire report said consumers will "not think twice" before clicking the "continue" option on the error message as they would likely attribute it to a network problem.

If a user hit continue, their emails and login credentials would be in the hands of the hackers.

"We strongly recommend that users never bypass certificate error messages by clicking 'continue'," the report warned.

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Microsoft Outlook 'hacked' by China

China users of Microsofts Outlook email service were hacked over the weekend, just weeks after Gmail was blocked in China, an online censorship watchdog reported yesterday.

People using email clients like Outlook, Thunderbird and apps on their phone with the SMTP and IMAP email protocols were subject to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, said China-based GreatFire.

The attack involved a pop-up warning message in the email client. Once clicked, the user's emails, contacts and passwords could then be logged by the cyber miscreants.

Greatfire reported that the attack lasted for approximately a day and has since stopped.

Attacks and blocks on foreign internet services have become increasingly common in China, which operates the world's most sophisticated online censorship mechanism, known as the Great Firewall, to eliminate any signs of dissent or challenges to the ruling Communist Party.

Critics say China has stepped up its disruption of foreign online services over the past year to create an internet cut off from the rest of the world.

GreatFire said on Monday that China's official Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) was likely responsible for the MITM attack on Outlook.

"If our accusation is correct, this new attack signals that the Chinese authorities are intent on further cracking down on communication methods that they cannot readily monitor," GreatFire said on its website.

Last month, Gmail was shut down in China before resuming infrequent and heavily disrupted activity, forcing many Chinese users to adopt domestic email systems.

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