Comments on: Green Dam stops a lot more than just Pr0n http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/ The views of one man on security, privacy and anything else that catches his attention Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Hal Jordan http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/comment-page-1/#comment-4843 Hal Jordan Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:42:46 +0000 http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/#comment-4843 From http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd/ "The image filter reportedly works by flagging images containing large areas of human skin tone, while making an exception for close-ups of faces." What will stops chinese childrens from alien pornography, I means nude blue antarians models (the chicks with the funny antenas) from star trek, or DC Comics Tamaran orange skinned Starfire (I have seen wonderful fan-art nudity works of this character). Probably a smart move from chinese goverment to jump start the children creativity to find solutions to go around the restrictions. Millions of hormone-fueled adolescent minds cut out from their favorite nudity source will be powerful enough to crack the NSA strongest encryption codes. From http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd/

“The image filter reportedly works by flagging images containing large areas of human
skin tone, while making an exception for close-ups of faces.”

What will stops chinese childrens from alien pornography, I means nude blue antarians models (the chicks with the funny antenas) from star trek, or DC Comics Tamaran orange skinned Starfire (I have seen wonderful fan-art nudity works of this character).

Probably a smart move from chinese goverment to jump start the children creativity to find solutions to go around the restrictions. Millions of hormone-fueled adolescent minds cut out from their favorite nudity source will be powerful enough to crack the NSA strongest encryption codes.

]]> By: Charles Liu http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/comment-page-1/#comment-4825 Charles Liu Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:05:51 +0000 http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/#comment-4825 Um, "preinstall" in Chinese actually means "bundle". Take this 6/12 ZDNet article citing WSJ for example: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19688 The end users were never required to install or run Green Dam. As to what Green Dam will filter, it is configuable by the user - there's a category of filters called "Illegal/Drug Content" parent can enable or disable. How this is twisted into censorhip by NYT and a handfull of bloggers is beyond me - anti-sinoism perhaps? Um, “preinstall” in Chinese actually means “bundle”. Take this 6/12 ZDNet article citing WSJ for example:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19688

The end users were never required to install or run Green Dam. As to what Green Dam will filter, it is configuable by the user – there’s a category of filters called “Illegal/Drug Content” parent can enable or disable.

How this is twisted into censorhip by NYT and a handfull of bloggers is beyond me – anti-sinoism perhaps?

]]> By: Security Briefing – June 16th : Liquidmatrix Security Digest http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/comment-page-1/#comment-4806 Security Briefing – June 16th : Liquidmatrix Security Digest Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:38:17 +0000 http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/#comment-4806 [...] Green Dam stops a lot more than just Pr0n – Network Security Blog [...] [...] Green Dam stops a lot more than just Pr0n – Network Security Blog [...]

]]> By: China releases Green Dam, security flaws found at Security Blog http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/comment-page-1/#comment-4801 China releases Green Dam, security flaws found at Security Blog Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:07:26 +0000 http://www.mckeay.net/2009/06/15/green-dam-stops-a-lot-more-than-just-pr0n/#comment-4801 [...] Security flaws have been confirmed in China’s recently-released censorware Green Dam. The patches cannot come soon enough as the filtering software has already been installed over 3.5 million times according to the Green Dam website. Green Dam is more than just regular internet filtering software, instead of blocking websites, email, and other internet communication, the software goes as far as to block ANY illegal phrases entered anywhere on the system. That includes typing an “illegal” phrase in a word processor or text editor, like Notepad for example. To read more about Green Dam check out this great article @ Network Security Blog [...] [...] Security flaws have been confirmed in China’s recently-released censorware Green Dam. The patches cannot come soon enough as the filtering software has already been installed over 3.5 million times according to the Green Dam website. Green Dam is more than just regular internet filtering software, instead of blocking websites, email, and other internet communication, the software goes as far as to block ANY illegal phrases entered anywhere on the system. That includes typing an “illegal” phrase in a word processor or text editor, like Notepad for example. To read more about Green Dam check out this great article @ Network Security Blog [...]

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