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Chinese Govt Spyware Puts Computers At Risk

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the big-brother-speaks-mandarin dept.

Ihmhi writes "China's mandatory 'Green Dam Youth Escort' web filter software apparently has a series of severe flaws. In addition to not working on Linux or MacOS, traffic between the software and its servers is unencrypted." I'm sure it only gets better after that.

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  1. Re:Linux is not ready for the desktop by Z00L00K · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone mod parent Funny. Insightful - maybe it is that too.

    We are all waiting for the major disaster of Windows that makes everyone abolish it. One cause may be that Mount St. Helens is one vent of a Supervolcano.

    Mount St. Helens seems to be sharing the magma pocket with Mount Rainier.

    It don't have to come down to a volcano erupting to take out Redmond, it's enough with a considerable quake.

    But on the other hand - it's more likely that Microsoft does something utterly stupid which makes them drop dead. Just look at GM, they failed to adapt.

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    If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.