A team of computer scientists at the University of Michigan have released this report about the Chinese government-mandated censorware, Green Dam. Here is the summary: We have discovered remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in Green Dam, the censorship... ...full story at RConversation
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| 17 Jul 08 |
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NextStep Green Business Forum - Part 02 »
YouTube video Video cut and edited from the documentary the 11th Hour for the NextStep Green Business Forum held in Shanghai on July 12th.
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| 19 Jun 09 |
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Green Dam's makers fail to fix problems » RConversation Last week, computer scientists at the University of Michigan, The Open Net Initiative, and an independent group of Chinese programmers all found serious security flaws in the government-mandated Green Dam-Youth Escort software. Earlier this week a Chinese... |
| 02 Jul 09 |
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Green Dam protesters celebrate censorware twist » Shanghaiist Photo of Ai Weiwei's Party by Shasha Liu The planned protests against the Green Dam Youth Escort turned into celebrations on Wednesday, when Chinese authorities suddenly postponed their order of the infamous censorware program. In turn, Lots of young... |
| 13 Jun 09 |
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Open Net Initiative report on Green Dam » RConversation The Open Net Initiative has released a detailed analysis of Green Dam. Executive summary (emphasis added): A recent directive by the Chinese government requires the installation of a specific filtering software product, Green Dam, with the publicly stated... |
| 01 Jul 09 |
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Green Dam is breached...Now what? » RConversation As a number of China hands predicted, the Chinese government has postponed its mandate requiring that all computers sold in China must include the Green Dam -Youth Escort censorware by today. Yesterday after the news broke I told the Financial... |
| 12 Jun 09 |
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I'm a Mac, you're a Green Dam infested PC* » Shanghaiist Resistance is futile: they've already started installing Green Dam internet filtering software in schools. The censorware is, according to its proponents, help in the eternal battle against smut and other morally damaging materials. Although we have our... |