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Green Dam on the Brink of Collapse

The controversial Chinese Internet filtering software project called Green Dam Youth Escort, which for a short period of time last year was pre-installed on new PCs sold in China, is close to shutting down. The development for the software has stopped and the maintenance team is facing financial problems as funding w...

13 July 2010
11:05 GMT

Law Firm Involved in Green Dam Suit Attacked from China

Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, the law firm representing Solid Oak Software in its $2.2 million lawsuit against the Chinese government and the developers of Green Dam Youth Escort, was targeted in a recent cyber attack. Hackers operating out of China attempted to infect the company's computers with an information-st...

15 January 2010
10:00 GMT

The Chinese Government Sued over Green Dam Software

The developers of the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort Internet content filtering software, as well as the Government of China and seven large computer manufacturers were named as defendants in a $2.2-billion copyright infringement lawsuit. The action was brought forth by Solid Oak Software, a U.S. company whose ...

6 January 2010
11:16 GMT

Company Plans to Release Low-Cost Green Dam Alternative

Solid Oak Software, a Santa Barbara-based company, plans to release a low-cost version of its Internet content-filtering solution on the Chinese market. The company wants its product to rival Green Dam Youth Escort, the controversial software that stole its proprietary code and used it without authorization. The Ch...

24 September 2009
08:03 GMT

Chinese Schools Damn the Green Dam

Many Chinese schools that were ordered by the government to deploy the Green Dam Youth Escort content-filtering application on their computers have complained that it interferes with a lot of pieces of software required for teaching. Some of the unhappy administrators have even proceeded to removing it from their net...

17 September 2009
09:49 GMT

China Delays Order to Deploy Buggy Censorware

The government in Beijing has indefinitely delayed its order that required all computers sold in China after July 1st to have a particular content-filtering application installed by default. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced this decision only one day before the order was to come into effe...

2 July 2009
04:14 GMT

US Asks China to Rethink Deployment of Internet Filtering Software

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk have sent an official letter to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), asking them to cancel and rethink the proposal that requires PCs sold in the country to come with a con...

27 June 2009
05:24 GMT

PC OEMs Risk Copyright Lawsuits over China's Censorware

Solid Oak Software, the developer of an Internet filtering application called CYBERsitter, claims that the developers of the new censorship application set to be bundled with all new PCs sold in China beginning next month are illegally using its proprietary code. Researchers from the University of Michigan confirm th...

16 June 2009
05:45 GMT

Road Paved for the Great Botnet of China

One of the security industry's worst nightmares, a gigantic botnet of Chinese origin, might become a reality if the government in Beijing goes ahead with its plan to deploy the Green Dam Youth Escort censorship software on all new PCs sold in the country, starting next month. Security researchers warn that the c...

13 June 2009
05:37 GMT


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