Analysis: Super-SAVA or super spy?

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China has forged ahead with Source Address Validation Architecture technology in its IPv6 internet backbone. But will it prevent abuses or is it just another attack on internet privacy?

In China, they do everything so much more quickly and efficiently, it seems. In the time it takes the UK to conduct a planning inquiry, China can construct a high-speed railway line from one end of...

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