Communication itinerary card
According to the official WeChat (WeChat) public account, the China Communications Travel Card will be offline from 00:00 on December 13. (provided by volunteers)
According to the official WeChat (WeChat) public account, an application (APP) “Itinerary Card” used to track COVID-19 contacts will be offline from 0:00 on December 13. However, experts remind the mainland people, “Don’t be too happy, the front-end application is closed, and the statistics and monitoring data of the itinerary card in the background are always there.”
In the past two and a half years, this “Communications Itinerary Card” (Communications Itinerary Card) and the portable “Health Code” that track the identity of those who have traveled to high-risk areas through mobile phone signals have become a popular choice for anyone who needs to travel, shop or Indispensable equipment for Chinese residents who see a doctor.
However, after the white paper campaign against the zero-clearing policy, the CCP authorities have made a major shift in the new crown epidemic prevention policy, and recently released the “New Ten Measures” measures to relax the “zero-clearing” policy. On December 12, the decommissioning “Itinerary Card” will be released.
According to a statement from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (http://www.caict.ac.cn/), the “Travel Card” SMS, webpage, WeChat extension, Alipay extension, APP and other mobile travel card query channels will be offline at the same time .
Surveillance is everywhere
On the 12th, a reporter from The Epoch Times interviewed Zhong Shan, a communication network engineer in the Silicon Valley Bay Area, who has his own unique insights in this field.
Zhong Shan said, “This ‘trip code’ is an online application jointly developed by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, the three major state-owned telecommunications companies. Provide technical support for large-scale epidemic prevention and isolation measures.”
“The app was first launched in March 2020. The information on the smartphone app includes the user’s encrypted mobile number, updated itinerary details, all countries or regions the user has visited in the past 14 days (or seven days), and Chinese cities where users stay for more than 4 hours.”
Regarding the reason for the “trip code” offline, Zhong Shan pointed out, “Senior health officials in Beijing have said that the rule change is based on scientific evidence, including the spread of the relatively mild Omicron variant, vaccination rates, and China’s level of experience in dealing with the virus. ”
So, does canceling the “travel code” mean that you don’t have to worry about being monitored?
From a technical point of view, Zhong Shan said, “First of all, the trip code is actually a big data application made by the operator to obtain the user’s trip based on the data of the base station. Now only the front-end application is closed, and the statistical monitoring data in the background is always there. It’s just that the user sees I don’t see my itinerary anymore. But the party, the government and various power departments can still see it at any time when they need to check it. This can be called deception!”
“Tracking is a requirement that needs to be triggered actively. If it is not triggered, tracking needs to query a large amount of raw data, which is basically unfeasible. But the trip code is basically a process of actively recording and reporting triggered by the user, so the development of this product is not only Is it a data analysis, or a tracking trigger is preset for each user, so that it is very convenient to query.”
Zhong Shan said, “Without the itinerary code, the whereabouts of citizens can be tracked at any time. The itinerary code is not the only known way. The health code is still there, but there is no need to display the itinerary. Moreover, the police cloud combined with police monitoring equipment has already completed the integration with Tencent product linkage, this is the core technology asset of this totalitarian government, how could it be easily given up!”
“QQ.FM Zhang Lei (net name)”, a former executive of a technology company in the United States, revealed on Twitter: “In Guangzhou this July, I had dinner with a friend who is a policeman. He demonstrated to me one of his police work. Just take a picture of someone with your mobile phone, and then you can check his various records, whether there is any violation, house opening record, criminal punishment record. Just think about it, the travel code data in the future will definitely be a data interface on the police. The police can see everything they want to see.”
The cancellation of the itinerary code is just a deception. He said that the real-name system of mobile phone numbers combined with base station positioning technology, as well as mobile phone discount coupons and consumer vouchers (electronic invoices (including various mobile phone code-scanning tickets), have already silently collected the user’s real whereabouts and issued ” In the name of “safety”, it is aggregated into the cloud big data. He said that for the police cloud and the special police mobile phone function collector, he will make special revelations for this.
Zhong Shan, formerly known as Wang Zu, graduated from a well-known Chinese university with a major in information electronics. Currently working as a communication network engineer in the Silicon Valley Bay Area of the United States. As an “awakened engineer”, he has long resisted the digital totalitarian tyranny with Chinese characteristics, calling on all technology practitioners to return to their original intention of improving the world and take responsibility.
