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Announcing Micro.blog for teams

manton.micro.blog

Today we’re launching a new feature on Micro.blog: support for multi-user blogs, so your whole team can write posts on a shared blog. We think it’s going to be great for small companies, families, and schools, with everything from shared photo blogs to podcasts.

Love that they are getting into the commercial space.

We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus

citizenlab.ca

For images, we use as our seed file a cartoon of Liu Xiaobo that was found to be censored on WeChat in previous work. To create a novel, still-sensitive copy of it, we append 24 KiB of random bytes to it. Since the seed file we used was a JPEG-encoded image, all data past the JPEG end-of-file marker is ignored when rendering the image; however, the appended data still causes the file to hash to a different value.