It would appear that China’s idea of supposedly safeguarding its citizens from offensive material by having the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software on all computers isn’t so safe after all.
Chinese experts have said that the software is full of faults and could leave the computers open to being taken over by hackers. That’s not good news when the government has mandated that all computers in the country must install it, and a reported three million have already downloaded it.
Isaac Mao, a blogger and social entrepreneur in China who’s also a research fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society told the BBC:
