The Green Dam that broke the GFW's back: grassroots backlash

I am more concerned of computers installing the software and now vulnerable to penetration of the people/groups China wants to keep out. Can you imagine those entity break into a sea of computers and propagate unlawful contents in the computers? Legally it will be a nightmare, someone can be arrested for having such content in its computer not even knowing being framed! Surely the software will report such contents, like a list of FLG members in China, regardless of its authenticity. Then no one is safe and anyone can be framed.

Chinese information technology is good, but not ready for such a monumental project. It will backfire and invite hackers to attack Chinese computers and cause massive blackout as it has already attract so much international attention. It has become a challenge to hackers...they must be salivating at the moment.

3-6 months, we will see someone high up losing they jobs for introducing such brilliant idea.

I hate to defend things like this, but I do believe that this was mostly done with the best of all intentions.

I could imagine that this could serve to put (part of) the access control to the user-level. May be in preparation of dismantling the Great Firewall of China?



Pre-installing or separate CD, either one will require a level of know-how that most users, especially first time buyers, do not have.

I think, any such filtering must be left to the ISP, who shoudl have a menu for the user to decide if and what restrictions should apply. The satellite TV guys can do it, the ISPs can do it, too.

This puts control to the user-level, at home at least.

If we visualize the internet like a bookstore, then there we would also have the smut corner, more or less tasteful erotica, politics, science, history, fiction, non-fiction and so on. The question is simply how much the general public should be able to see of the smut, without withdrawing the product from view entirely (then it can't be sold).

No it was done because too many Chinese and too many foreigners are going around, over, under or right through the GFW. It has grown beyond the point of effective management and when you have western computer scientists publishing open papers on how the GFW works, its death knell has sounded. The installed software is there as a backup to protect "pure Chinese thought".