{"id":9370,"date":"2009-06-14T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Chinas-Mandatad-SiteBlocking-SW-is-Pirated"},"modified":"2009-06-14T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:10:02","slug":"chinas-mandated-site-blocking-sw-is-pirated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=9370","title":{"rendered":"China’s Mandated Site-Blocking SW is Pirated"},"content":{"rendered":"
We wrote earlier about China’s new censorship moves with regards to PCs, mandating that new PCs there have site-blocking software installed, or at least provided via an included CD. Ironically, though not surprisingly, it turns out that the filtering software, “Green Dam-Youth Escort,” contains pirated code.According to Solid Oak Software, the makers of CyberSitter, one of the more popular Internet-filtering programs, not only does Green Dam look similar to CyberSitter, it uses DLLs identified with CyberSitter,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We wrote earlier about China’s new censorship moves with regards to PCs, mandating that new PCs there have site-blocking software installed, or at least provided via an included CD. Ironically, though not surprisingly, it turns out that the filtering software, “Green Dam-Youth Escort,” contains pirated code.According to Solid Oak Software, the makers of CyberSitter, one of the more popular Internet-filtering programs, not only does Green Dam look similar to CyberSitter, it uses DLLs identified with CyberSitter, Continue reading