Friday Fun: Google, Jackie Chan, and great photos
DPRK citizens forbidden from entering Google offices?
According to this article in Britain’s Daily Mail:
When you visit the shiny headquarters of Google UK, just a stone’s throw from Victoria Station in London, the receptionist asks you to log-in on a computer with a touch screen.
How else would you sign in? This is one of the centres of the cyber universe.
And then something strange happens. Before you can be issued a pass, the computer asks you to enter into a ‘ nondisclosure agreement’ with Google Inc., a 499-word document.
You must agree not to disclose any confidential information that you might stumble upon while in the building.
In particular, the Participant (that’s you) ‘hereby certifies that he/she shall not - directly or indirectly - sell, export, re- export, transfer, divert, or otherwise dispose of any hardware, software, source code or technology . . . without obtaining prior authorisation from Google and the appropriate government authorities’.
In addition, you must even certify that you are not a citizen of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria.
Some readers will recall a similar incident with LinkedIn a few weeks back (which has since been resolved).
Jackie Chan
Following Jackie Chan’s comments that he believed Chinese people “need to be controlled,” some Hong Kong residents created a Facebook group dedicated to sending him to the DPRK. If you are a member of Facebook, check out the group page here.
Great Photos
(Hat tip to David) The Boston Globe posted a great set of photos from North Korea’s boder with China. I am not easily impressed with photos of the DPRK, but these are good.
(Addition Al Jazeera)
Last night Scott Snyder and Alejandro Cao de Benos were on Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan. Part 1 here. Part 2 here.
