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Home Office sets out plan to block websites

The government is considering plans for the web blocking of certain sites, such as those dedicated to Islamic fundamentalism, on state-funded networks Read more

8 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

PC makers pull back on Green Dam installs

The Chinese government's Green Dam-Youth Escort initiative is facing hurdles as target organisations have uninstalled... Read more

9 October, 2009 by Vivian Yeo

China orders plug for hole in Green Dam

The Chinese government has ordered the makers of the Green Dam Youth Escort censorware to rush out a patch. The censorship software... Read more

16 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Green Dam exploit in the wild

...internet. The buffer overflow flaw exists in the latest, patched version of Green Dam, 3.17, according to security researcher 'Trancer', who claims authorship of... Read more

25 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk

...open the door to hackers creating huge botnets. Programming errors in the Green Dam Youth Escort software, which the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information... Read more

12 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

US law firm in China piracy case hit by cyberattacks

...as part of a Chinese government-sponsored censorship program involving China-created Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software. For more on this story, see US... Read more

14 January, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Cybersitter firm sues China over software piracy

...web content filtering program and distributed that code as part of the Green Dam Youth Escort censorship effort sponsored by the Chinese government. California-based... Read more

6 January, 2010 by Elinor Mills

China web clampdown ahead of anniversary

...was "very worried" about reports of a more powerful version of the Green Dam censorship software, called Landun (Blue Shield or Dam), which internet service... Read more

1 October, 2009 by Tom Espiner

US asks China to drop filtered software

...secretary, Gary Locke, to the Chinese ministry. It expressed concern that the Green Dam Youth Escort software required to be installed on all PCs by... Read more

25 June, 2009 by Erica Ogg

Chinese gov't in further Green Dam concessions

PC makers will no longer have to pre-install Green Dam censorware on PCs in China, the government has announced. The official... Read more

13 August, 2009

China says thousands arrested over web porn

...summer of 2009, when a plan to require desktop-monitoring software called Green Dam Youth Escort on all new PCs backfired. For more on this... Read more

4 January, 2010 by Jennifer Guevin

Report: China wants censorship software on PCs

...as pornography, according to the software's main developer. The software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, would block access to banned websites by connecting to... Read more

8 June, 2009 by Steven Musil

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