Is Country Wide Internet Filtering Totally Viable?
Green Dam, a tool that has been mandated by the Chinese Government to help filter porn and violence sites, is delayed. But what is really intriguing is the idea that the country wide filtering systems in use by China, and many other countries and companies might not be up to the task of filtering all the content. Green Dam should be seen as a tool to self monitor on the actual PC, meaning China is having problems keeping up with the speed that the internet adds and removes web sites. Read more
Dan Morrill
Registered Since: 2009-06-17 13:02:05
About the Author: Dan Morrill has been in the information security field for 18 years, both civilian and military, and is currently working on his Doctor of Management. Dan shares his insights on the important security issues of today through his blog, Managing Intellectual Property & IT Security, and is an active participant in the ITtoolbox blogging community.
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Running Unsigned iPhone Apps Without Jailbreaking
Too bad that the IPhone 3.0 OS is coming out in the next month or so, but some intrepid researchers have figured out a way to get unsigned code to run in memory for people using IPhone 2.0 software. This opens the door to unsigned third party apps running on your IPhone without the need to jailbreak the thing. Read more
