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rconversation.blogs.com - 6/11/2009
Original government document ordering "Green Dam" software installation
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An anonymous source has sent me a scan of this "notification" from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requiring that PC manufacturers install the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software in all PC's manufactured in China or imported into...
Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System
cse.umich.edu - 6/11/2009
Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System
— cse.umich.edu — Summary We have discovered remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in Green Dam, the censorship software reportedly mandated by the Chinese... government. Any web site a Green Dam user visits can take control of the PC. According to press reports, China ... (more) Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System

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opennet.net - 6/12/2009
China's Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC | ...
— opennet.net — China's Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC To view this bulletin... as a PDF, click here . Executive Summary A recent directive by the Chinese government requires the installation of a specific filtering software ... (more) China's Green Dam: The Implications of Government ...

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The Green Dam Phenomenon
online.wsj.com - 6/17/2009
The Green Dam Phenomenon
— online.wsj.com — REBECCA MACKINNON From today's Wall Street Journal Asia. The Chinese government may be backing down from its... plan to install new "filtering" software, Green Dam, on all Chinese computers. But it would be na ve to think that scrapping the Green Dam ... (more) The Green Dam Phenomenon

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Freedom to Tinker:  China's New Mandatory Censorware Creates Big Security Flaws

TechWeb:  China Making Green Dam Internet Filter Optional

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China's New Mandatory Censorware Creates Big Security Flaws
Freedom to Tinker — ... , 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 vulnerabilities on users' computers. ...

China Making Green Dam Internet Filter Optional
TechWeb — The Chinese government appears to have reconsidered its mandate that all computers sold in China after July 1 include the Green Dam Youth Escort Web filtering software. According to separate reports from the ...

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Green Dam is breached...Now what?
rconversation.blogs.com 7/2/2009 — 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...
Green Dam live date 'unchanged'
chinadaily.com.cn 6/23/2009 — China will not back away from its July 1 launch date for the controversial anti-pornography computer filter Green Dam Youth Escort, a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) source said. The assertion followed criticism from the US ...
Green Dam net filter 'hurts media like cancer'
techradar.com 7/1/2009 — Chinese bloggers and netizens are celebrating the tactical withdrawal of the controversial filtering software 'Green Dam' in Communist-run China. 'Green dam hurts media like cancer' according to one anonymous Chinese blogger, quoted on Radio 4's Today programme. The same journalist decreed that ...
Green Dam breached, patch-up in progress
chinadaily.com.cn 6/15/2009 — The developer of a porn-filtering software has been ordered to rush software patches to address security problems which have cropped up. "The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told us to make the software safer as soon a series of ...
Green Dam live date 'unchanged'
chinadaily.com.cn 6/23/2009 — China will not back away from its July 1 launch date for the controversial anti-pornography computer filter Green Dam Youth Escort, a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) source said. The assertion followed criticism from the US ...
'Just a matter of time' for China's Green Dam filter
techradar.com 7/2/2009 — PC companies shipping to China will still have to supply Green Dam software, despite news that the web filtering plan has been shelved. In a bid to curb the amount of pornography and piracy that comes through the web, Green Dam-Youth Escort software was to be mandatory with every new PC as of ...
Exploit code for China's "Green Dam" censorship app permits remote control of any Chinese PC
feeds.boingboing.net 6/23/2009 — Wikileaks has published what is said to be proof that computers compliant with "Green Dam" can be maliciously controlled, using vulnerabilities in that censorware. Green Dam is a new Chinese state censorship program mandated to be provided with all PC's sold in China after July 1, 2009. The ...
China's not backing down but Green Dam Girl fights back
government.zdnet.com 6/19/2009 — Green Dam Girl is the manifestation of Chinese youth’s anger over Youth Escort. There was a glimmer of hope that China would take an honorable retreat on Green Dam-Youth Escort and only require PC makers to ship the software on CD or with an ...
WSJ: China not requiring Green Dam software
news.cnet.com 8/14/2009 — Industry minister now says China won't force installation of the Internet filtering software on PCs shipped to the country, according to The Wall Street Journal.