Big vulnerabilities in China’s mandatory filtering software

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Recent reports indicate that the Chinese government is planning to extend the reach of its Internet censorship efforts. The government’s massive back-end filtering system, referred to satirically in the west as the Great Firewall of China, will soon be augmented by client-side filtering tools that the Chinese government is pressuring hardware manufacturers to ship with new computers. The filtering software, which is called Green Dam, is designed to analyze the user’s network traffic and block material that is politically sensitive or adult in nature.