谷歌、蘋果、Mozilla采取行動(dòng)阻止哈薩克監(jiān)控系統(tǒng)
Google, Apple and Firefox browser maker Mozilla took steps on Wednesday to block the Kazakh government from creating an internet surveillance system using their browsers.
谷歌、蘋果和火狐瀏覽器制造商Mozilla周三采取措施,阻止哈薩克斯坦政府使用瀏覽器創(chuàng)建互聯(lián)網(wǎng)監(jiān)控系統(tǒng)。
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will block a government encryption certificate that allows authorities to read anything a user types or posts using the browsers, including account information and passwords, the companies said in separate statements.
谷歌Chrome和Mozilla Firefox將阻止一個(gè)政府加密證書,允許當(dāng)局使用瀏覽器讀取任何用戶類型或帖子,包括帳戶信息和密碼,公司在單獨(dú)的聲明中說。
Apple also said in a statement it would take similar measures to protect the users of its Safari browser.
蘋果還在一份聲明中表示,將采取類似措施保護(hù)其Safari瀏覽器的用戶。
Kazakh authorities were not immediately available to comment.
哈薩克斯坦當(dāng)局沒有立即發(fā)表評(píng)論。
Earlier this month, Kazakhstan said it had halted implementation of the system, the initial rollout of which was described as a test by the government.
本月早些時(shí)候,哈薩克斯坦表示已經(jīng)停止了該系統(tǒng)的實(shí)施,該系統(tǒng)的首次推出被描述為政府的一項(xiàng)測(cè)試。
State security officials had said its goal was to protect Kazakh users from “hacker attacks, online fraud and other kinds of cyber threats.”
國家安全官員曾表示,其目標(biāo)是保護(hù)哈薩克斯坦用戶免受“黑客攻擊、網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺詐和其他類型的網(wǎng)絡(luò)威脅”。
The system could be deployed again “if threats emerge to national security in the form of cyber- and information attacks,” Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee said in a statement this month.
哈薩克斯坦國家安全委員會(huì)本月在一份聲明中表示,如果國家安全受到網(wǎng)絡(luò)和信息攻擊的威脅,該系統(tǒng)可能會(huì)再次部署。
The former Soviet Central Asian nation routinely blocks websites and applications used by its critics, including Facebook and YouTube, for short periods of time.
前蘇聯(lián)中亞國家經(jīng)常在短時(shí)間內(nèi)屏蔽其批評(píng)者(包括Facebook和YouTube)使用的網(wǎng)站和應(yīng)用程序。
The blocks have often coincided with public protests, the most recent wave of which took place around the time of the June 9 election which completed the transfer of power from strongman Nursultan Nazarbayev to his loyal ally Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
這些封鎖經(jīng)常與公眾抗議同時(shí)發(fā)生,最近的一次抗議浪潮發(fā)生在6月9日的選舉期間,這次選舉完成了將權(quán)力從強(qiáng)大的努爾蘇坦納扎爾巴耶夫,移交給忠誠的盟友卡西姆喬馬托卡耶夫的過程。