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Dam Burst Tool Disables China's Green Dam Censorware
An anonymous reader writes "The infamous Green Dam censorship software has suffered yet another blow. As ZDNet explains, Dam Burst, a tool released by security researcher Jon Oberheide, allows unprivileged users to disable the censorware by removing the hooks that enable it to monitor and block user activity, effectively restoring running applications to their original uncensored state. While the Dam Burst software is currently available at Oberheide's website, community mirrors will undoubtedly be necessary to avoid blocking by the Great Firewall."
If Green Dam software were required in China (and it's not yet clear that it will be), disabling it might be trivial but the act of disabling it would open the user to prosecution. A Chinese user could 'accidentally' click on a site they should not have seen but it's hard to see disabling Green Dam software as anything but deliberate. Having said that, I think Oberheide's work is commendable.
If China has so much control over traffic, what is to keep them from simply running a man in the middle attack,
and redirecting your download or website request to an identical looking trojan download?
And they really don't want to be bothered with being able to search for "democracy" or "freedom"? Yes, I can see the Chinese people really have a say in their government.
The right to protest the State is more sacred than the State.
Yes, but ubuntu is free open-source software and no-one in China knows what "Free" or "Open" mean.
You are a dumb-ass. Not to mention a bigot.
My comment was aimed at the consequences of the repressive politics of China, not it's people, so please don't think of me as a bigot. I am grateful for the freedoms and open-ness of our society, and I merely chose to express my view through irony.
Smivs on the intertubes!