Green Dam censor boss gets death threats
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Despite protests from around the world, China’s Communist leaders have in effect said Phuk U to attempts to dissuade them from implementing Green Dam Youth Escort `filter` they’ve decreed shall included in all new PCS made or shipped by July 1.
Now, “I got a call last night, threatening to kill my child and my wife,” state news agency Xinhua quotes Zhang Chenmin, general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co, which developed the censor-ware, as saying.
Ai Weiwei, who designed Beijing`s emblematic `Bird`s Nest` stadium, has called for a boycott starting on July 21, and Wikileaks reports a hack is already available online.
Zhang Chenmin says he’s had, “more than 1,000 harassing calls and even death threats since early this month,” .
He also said Jinhui’s website has been continuously under hack attack, “which has seriously affected the company’s customer service”.
“We are now under great pressure and our company has been at a critical moment,” he says in the story. “I never expected the software to have brought us so many troubles. Our aim is simply to protect children from Internet pornography.”
But, “Even in the face of growing pressure from the West, the Chinese government said yesterday that it will not back down on plans to launch a mandatory filtering program,” says the Christian Science Monitor.
Meanwhile, bot, anyone?
Wikileaks points to a ZIP file which provides a web page and associated computer code, that can be used to remotely take control of any computer system running the Green Dam software.
Downloads: fast site, current site, Sweden, US, Latvia, Slovakia, UK, Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Tonga, Europe, SSL, Tor.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Green Dam Youth Escort – Green Dam of China censor software, June 8, 2009
Xinhua – Web filter developers get death threat, , June 24, 2009
called for a boycott – Green Dam Youth Escort hacked, June 23, 2009
Wikileaks – Chinese Green Dam censorship system exploit, June 22, 2009
Christian Science Monitor – Chinese government shows no sign of backing down on spyware program, June 23, 2009
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