China’s Dam Delay
The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing has delayed its mandate to have Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software installed on all new Windows computers sold in China. The deadline was originally July 1st.
PC World's take is that implementation of Green Dam is only a matter of time.
Our take?
If China wants to require anti-pornography filtering software that's China's business, not ours.
But the same software on EVERY computer sold in China? That's monoculture.
And as we've noted before, monocultures are subject to catastrophic failure in the event of a successful attack.
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More: China's Web filtering starts in the West
PC World's take is that implementation of Green Dam is only a matter of time.
Our take?
If China wants to require anti-pornography filtering software that's China's business, not ours.
But the same software on EVERY computer sold in China? That's monoculture.
And as we've noted before, monocultures are subject to catastrophic failure in the event of a successful attack.
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More: China's Web filtering starts in the West
On 02/07/09 At 01:22 PM
