cPanel warning is politically incorrect

ghoti · Feb 20, 2012

Hey,

Just thought I would share this. Seems we have some Chinese mainland programmers working on cPanel as I see politics is now involved in the coding.

I got this regular hack attempt from the brute force protection:

5 failed login attempts to account staff (system) -- Large number of attempts from this IP: 124.11.19.106

Reverse DNS: 124-11-19-106.dynamic.tfn.net.tw

Origin Country: Taiwan, Province of China (TW)
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Taiwan is not a Province of China. It is its own independent country.

Let me quote wiki to highlight the issue with the above error:

"Taiwan, China" or "Taiwan, Province of China" is a set of politically controversial and potentially ambiguous terms that characterize Taiwan and its associated territories as a province or territory of "China". However, the term is problematic and potentially ambiguous because since 1949, two states with the name "China" exist, namely the Republic of China (ROC, founded 1911 and now known as "Taiwan") and the People's Republic of China (PRC, founded 1949 and now known as "China"). Since the ROC no longer rules most of mainland China and subsequently became commonly known as "Taiwan", and the PRC, which is now commonly known as "China" by the international community and which has never controlled Taiwan but claims it as part of PRC's territory, "Taiwan, China" is a term that implicitly places the ROC/"Taiwan", which is sovereign, under the sovereignty of PRC/"China". Its use is usually politically promulgated by the Communist PRC government as a way to claim that the ROC/"Taiwan" is under its sovereignty, since the PRC claims to be the legitimate government of "all China", which, according to its definition, includes Taiwan also. The ROC government disputes the PRC position and it along with many ROC citizens consider this term incorrect and offensive and its use a purposeful false identification which denies the ROC's sovereignty, and object to its use.[1] It is particularly offensive to those Taiwanese who believe in Taiwan Independence and want to disassociate Taiwan with "China" and a Chinese identity, and consider it a lie and an oxymoron.
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Taiwan, China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I dont want to be supporting PRC propaganda by supporting this product. Could it be corrected?

AaronPhillips · Feb 20, 2012

Greetings,

Believe me when I say we have no political motivations behind this and wish to be politically correct in our software. Would the correct description be as follows:

Origin Country: Taiwan (TW)

I appreciate your response and will internally discuss this once I receive a reply from you.

cPanelKenSmith · Feb 20, 2012

Hi Ghoti,

I wanted to clarify that cpanel is written by the dev team that is all located in Houston Texas, US at our main office. As Aaron pointed out, there is no political motivation behind the text you're seeing. That text comes from a freely available public GeoIP database that is used with the Geo::IPfree perl module.

You can read up on that module here:
Geo::IPfree - search.cpan.org

The text there points out:
An updated version of the database can be obtained by visiting the Webnet77 website: FREE IP to Country Database (IPV4 and IPV6).

The search tool on that website marks the country for ip 124.11.19.106 as "Taiwan; Republic of China (ROC)"

So you see, cpanel it self has nothing to do with the text reported, it's a 3rd party database to us that just happens to be used by the geoip module we're using on cpan. If any changes can/will be made to that data, Aaron will head up the internal discussion on it as he's pointed out once you answer him.

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