China orders plug for hole in Green Dam
News The Chinese government has ordered the makers of the Green Dam Youth Escort censorware to rush out a patch. The Green Dam software is billed by the Chinese government as a pornography filter, primarily for use in schools.
[June 16, 2009, 15:42]
US asks China to drop filtered software
News It expressed concern that the Green Dam Youth Escort software required to be installed on all PCs by July 1 violates World Trade Organization rules. Mandating technically-flawed Green Dam software and denying manufacturers and consumers freedom to...
[June 25, 2009, 9:59]
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
News Programming errors in the Green Dam Youth Escort software, which the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Tuesday must be pre-installed on all new computers in the country, are at the root of the flaws, according to...
[June 12, 2009, 14:56]
Report: China wants censorship software on PCs
News The software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, would block access to banned websites by connecting to a regularly updated database of banned sites and block access to those addresses, according to the report.
[June 8, 2009, 9:16]
PC makers pull back on Green Dam installs
News The Chinese government's Green Dam-Youth Escort initiative is facing hurdles as target organisations have uninstalled the content-filtering software. Following a revision in mandate, PC makers that had previously complied with the Chinese...
[October 9, 2009, 16:46]
