A team of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan investigated Green Dam, the software China's government wants preinstalled on all new PCs sold there. They found--in addition to a few vulnerabilities allowing execution of arbitrary code--blacklists and configuration files lifted straight from Cybersitter, a Web censoring tool made by Solid Oak, a California software company.
Now Solid Oak is angry.
It's considering taking legal action to prevent computers from being shipped to China with Green Dam installed. There's no good way to resolve the issue; Solid Oak can't enforce U.S. copyright law in China, and stopping U.S. computer manufacturers from shipping their goods to China, while legal and effective, just seems unfair--Dell et al would be the losers in the fight between Solid Oak and the company that made Green Dam.
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