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- Censorware
- Software that blocks certain types of Internet traffic from being retrieved. See Web filtering and parental control software.
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- Security flaws galore: Researchers dissect China's Green Dam censorware
- Security flaws galore: Researchers dissect China's Green Dam censorwareSomehow that figuresWho would expect censorware makers to actually be competent at what they do?BINGO!!!"The big question is whether these flaws enable the Chinese government to take control of PCs. If hackers can do it easily why can?t a few government employees?"Wouldn't...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
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- Remote code execution exploit for Green Dam in the wild
- The recently exposed as vulnerable to trivial remotely exploitable flaws Chinese censorware Green Dam, has silently patched the security flaws (China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patch) outlined in the original analysis detailing the vulnerabilities. However, not only is the latest Green...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- PC makers plead with China for release from Youth Escort
- True to form, having figured out the wind is blowing strongly against Green Dam - Youth Escort the censorware that China had ordered PC makers to install before selling computers in the country, the tech industry has now lent its name to a tepid letter of protest to the Chinese...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patch
- China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patchThe problem with backdoor softwareis the danger somebody else will discover your back door and use it.What was that about copyright infringement, again?[i]"?It is not responsible to crack somebody?s software and publish the details, which are commercial secrets, on...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- China confirms security flaws in Green Dam, rushes to release a patch
- China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has instructed the developers of the Green Dam censorware, to briefly release a patch in regard to last week's published analysis detailing the possibility of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities within the software. Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co, developer of Green Dam,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- News to know: Nokia; Salesforce; Mozilla; Google; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and open source face-off...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Security flaws galore: Researchers dissect China's Green Dam censorware
- A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has found a bevy of exploitable vulnerabilities in Green Dam, censorship software that the Chinese government wants to bundle on every PC. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that China wanted to require PC makers to bundle...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Open source and the box era
- Open source and the box eraOn the other hand ,,,,"A program like Untangle could easily re-define the home router space. Add its security and censorware to a standard home router and a $40 box magically becomes a $100 box."There IS the Open Source DD-wrt (see http://www.dd-wrt.com ) which MAKES a...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Open source values: openness
- Along with transparency and consensus, a third key open source value is openness. (Poetree from the 2005 Labyrinth Guild of New England festival. Click here for the poem.) Openness means the simple availability of the resource. All the resource. When someone violates openness, the rent is obvious....
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Open source booming in K-12 education
- Can open source succeed where Windows and the Mac have failed? I'm talking here of K-12 education. An eSchools report right says open source spending is growing 70% per year, and will be up 800% in 2011 from last year's level. The harsh words...
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
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