Blogs1 - 9 of 9 recent posts for tag:censorware
30
Jun
2009
China delays plan for mandatory “Green Dam” internet filter  

3 days ago by Donald Melanson

There's not exactly much more details than the headline on this one, but China's official Xinhua news agency is reporting that the country is delaying its plans that would require that the so-called "Green Dam Youth Escort" internet filtering software be installed on all PCs sold in China. That requ ...

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China delays plan for mandatory "Green Dam" internet filter  

3 days ago by Donald Melanson

There's not exactly much more details than the headline on this one, but China's official Xinhua news agency is reporting that the country is delaying its plans that would require that the so-called "Green Dam Youth Escort" internet filtering software be installed on all PCs sold in China. That requ ...

Engadget - engadget.com · Rank: 39 · 37283 references

Sony now including “Green Dam” filtering software on PCs sold in China  

4 days ago by Donald Melanson

Well, there was some evidence earlier this month that some piracy issues in China's mandated "Green Dam" content-filtering software could cause PC exports to the country to be stalled, but it looks like Sony has now gone ahead and included the software on its PCs regardless, albeit with a few major ...

Daily Tech Log - dailytechlog.com

Sony now including "Green Dam" filtering software on PCs sold in China  

4 days ago by Donald Melanson

Well, there was some evidence earlier this month that some piracy issues in China's mandated "Green Dam" content-filtering software could cause PC exports to the country to be stalled, but it looks like Sony has now gone ahead and included the software on its PCs regardless, albeit with a few major ...

Engadget - engadget.com · Rank: 39 · 37283 references

26
Jun
2009
"Green Dam" vs Cybersitter  

8 days ago by Seth Finkelstein

There's a quote attributed to Henry Kissinger about the Iran-Iraq war, where he said, "the ultimate American interest in the war [is] that both should lose.". I feel that way about the conflict with Cybersitter censorware company versus China's "Green Dam" censorware. I've sat out the whole "Green D ...

Infothought - sethf.com/infothought/blog · Rank: 33,403 · 122 references

15
Jun
2009
China releases Green Dam, security flaws found  

18 days ago by Will

Security flaws have been confirmed in China’s recently-released censorware Green Dam. The patches cannot come soon enough as the filtering software has already been installed over 3.5 million times according to the Green Dam website. Green Dam is more than just regular internet filtering software, i ...

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China admits security flaws in upcoming “Green Dam” software, issues patch  

19 days ago by Randall Bennett

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has instructed the developers behind the “Green Dam” censoring software to create a patch to plug security holes that could allow machines running the software, which is required to be installed on all Chinese computers on or after July 1st, to ...

TechVi - techvi.com · Rank: 23,647 · 44 references

11
Jun
2009
China's New Mandatory Censorware Creates Big Security Flaws  

22 days ago by Ed Felten

Today Scott Wolchok, Randy Yao, and Alex Halderman at the University of Michigan released a report analyzing Green Dam, the censorware program that the Chinese government just ordered installed on all new computers in China. The researchers found that Green Dam creates very serious security vulnerab ...

Freedom to Tinker - freedom-to-tinker.com · Rank: 7,087 · 815 references

08
Jun
2009
China's Censorware: What about GNU/Linux?  

26 days ago by glyn moody

News is breaking that the Chinese government will insist on censorware being shipped with all PCs: China plans to require that all personal computers sold in the country as of July 1 be shipped with software that blocks access to certain Web sites, a move that could give government censors unprecede ...

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