China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
>The app reportedly scans for the MD5 digital signatures of media files in the phone, and matches them to a stored database of offending files classified by the government as illegal "terrorist-related" media.<p>What a dumb way to scan for "illegal" content, considering the goverment already controls their portion of the internet.  So instead of monitoring who is accessing what they decide to compare checksums of files which can be trivially changed which would result in a completely new hash value.<p>Seems like a very incompetent way of doing this.