Lock Down the Net - Stolen?

By Alan

As a followup article from last year: Lock Down the Net, talking about ways to lock down a home network or computer, we thought this was an interesting development.

There are preliminary news reports that the company that manufactured the Cybersitter software is suing the Chinese government for $2.2 billion in damages in a federal lawsuit. Cybersitter, a family run company, provides Internet filtering software originally intended to prevent inappropriate website access by children in the household.

The company contends that China and seven computer manufacturers that sold computers in China took direct copies of code for their software, modified it to filter out "violent or obscene content," but other human rights groups cried out that the software allowed the Chinese government to filter out any websites that contained politically radical content, or opposing points of view.

Of course, the courts will have to decide about the piracy issue, and certainly the human freedoms and politics will dominate the new coverage.

Comments

[Matt]

Very interesting. Funny how people can take a great thing and turn it into something not so great.