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- China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam
- With less than a week until July 1 - the deadline for PC makers to start intalling the spyware called Green Dam Youth Escort - China appears to be cutting off access to Google after a bitter campaign accusing the American company of spreading porn. Meanwhile, U.S. officials have escalated...
- Tags: U.S., China, Google Inc., Free Trade, Tools & Techniques, Network Security, Networking, Security, Finance, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- 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...
- Tags: Software, China, Flaw, Vulnerability, Programming, Government, Tools & Techniques, Security, Development Tools, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Green Dam definitively blocks political sites - and creates security breach
- Despite China's claims that Green Dam Youth Escort - the spyware the government has commanded shall be installed on all new PCs - is merely a porn filter, it's now clear that the software filters a whole bunch of political content. According to The Wall Street...
- Tags: Software, Security, Content, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
- China is running a massive operation to track and store text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, The New York Times reports. China has about one million censored messages, many of which contain personally identifiable information, according to...
- Tags: Message, China, Monitoring, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Senate hearing refocuses on China
- Well it's not nice to pick on China these days, what with the earthquake and all. But that didn't stop Dick Durbin from picking on Google, Cisco and Yahoo about their business dealings in China, as Anne Broache reports on News.com. In interesting part, the hearing focused...
- Tags: China, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S. Senate, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- WikiLeaks Not Shut Down
- WikiLeaks has not been shut down. It's more available than ever. I had not intended on commenting about this story. I have seen it and seen it, ever since the Web was spun. Local government tries to suppress something, data gets routed offshore. Chinese...
- Tags: Censorship, Judge, News, WikiLeaks, Web Site Development, Government, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- China's golden cyber shield? Not.
- On my recent travels in China I had an opportunity to experience first hand China's so called "Golden Wall". In each hotel I would try to get to several sites. For some reason this security blog is censored throughout China. How does that make you feel...
- Tags: China, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowers
- Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowersThis site has to be the worst idea of the year.Not only can any Joe-shmoe post totally fabricated information anonimously, but it's also considered to be fact until it's democratically proven otherwise. I'm curious when it was decided that the truth is decided by...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Wiki, moderator, chinese page, government
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- Chinese e-pedia e-Wiki shuts down
- The Chinese online encyclopedia e-Wiki, closely modeled on Wikipedia, has shut itself down under heavy pressure from the Chinese government, Reporters Without Borders reports. "We all aspire to freedom, but we live in the embrace of the motherland so we have to be subjected to relevant restraints and cannot...
- Tags: e-Wiki
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- Capitalism Gone Amok
- I never would have believed that the day would come when I thought that Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, even George Bush all showed more moral fiber than the leaders of the finest companies in the world’s greatest country. However, judging by last week’s visit of China’s premier Hu...
- Tags: Bill Gates
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Search cos. considering industry standards for China
- Google and other technology firms -- presumably Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco -- are discussing an industry-wide code of principles that would govern American companies in China, Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, told a Silicon Valley meeting Monday, the San Jose Mercury News reports. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., industry standard, Peter Norvig
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- Why China censors Wikipedia
- Why China censors WikipediaInformation censorshipThere is no such thing as harmful information. The only information that could possibly be harmful is the information that you don't get......why the chinese sysops can still manage wikipedia in Chinese despite block?"But on sensitive questions of China's modern history or on hot-button issues, the...
- Tags: Wiki, Vertical industries, moderator, government, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-02-22
- Google: China decision painful but right
- Google: China decision painful but rightGoogle: China decision painful but rightWas it right when Microsoft pulled the chinese blog? We sure did hear a lot of crap about that from the linux fanboys. Where are they to protect Google?DisappointingBut Google's actions are no different than those of hundreds...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-26
- Google censors themself
- Google censors themselfDon't be evil?I can't believe Google would do something like this. What ever happened to "Don't be evil"? What is more evil than a corporation censoring free speech?Chinese users who visit Google cannot find information about political issues such as Taiwanese independence, Falun Gong, the Tiananmensquare massacre, and...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-25
- Google to censor China Web searches
- Google to censor China Web searcheslolIsn't Iran's oil market set to switch to euros soon?Time for another war, woo-hoo!:o)Wrong you shillAre you some kind of sleeper cell? If so, you've revealed yourself.America News Chanel are guilty of cemsorship too..For instance when Iraq in 2002 switch their oil transaction currency to...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-24
- Google censors themself
- Google is now providing a self censored version of their search engine to China. They are basically removing any services that contain user interaction, and blocking certain keywords that the Chinese government would oppose such as Falun Gong. The stripped down version of Google only contains web, image,...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- Congress to address the Chinese growth/censorship conundrum
- Harvard Law School Berkman Center research fellow Rebecca MacKinnon has the details on Congressional moves to address the Net censorship undertaken by companies like Yahoo and Microsoft who find themselves filtering content at the request of the local authorities in order to do business in a market that many American...
- Tags: censorship
- Blog posts 2006-01-13
- Forbidden Language
- I have blogged before about the immoral actions of Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft in their drooling effort to capture the Chinese market. I am torn in the same way I am sure upper management at these Internet behemoths are. On the one hand the very existence of the Internet...
- Tags: Zhao Jing, blog, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- China to consolidate Net cafes
- China to consolidate Net cafesThank God I live in the USAEven with all the warts and sometimes in fighting, I am glad I live here and not in China.US should follow suit!US should do the same.There will be no more Internet sexual predators, scam artists and terorists that are using...
- Tags: Internet, Net Cafe, government
- Discussion threads 2003-10-27
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