[pchelpers] News:China's Controversial Internet Filter 'Full of Holes'

China has ordered software producers to create security Relevant
Products/Services patches following reports Relevant Products/Services
that its controversial new Internet filtering system could allow remote
monitoring and control of users' computers, and the stealing of personal
information, state media said on Monday. 

"The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told us to make the
software safer as soon a series of security vulnerabilities were found,"
the official China Daily quoted Zhang Chenmin, manager of Jinhui
Computer System Engineering, as saying.

Jinhui's programmers were "working non-stop in collaboration with
domestic anti-virus program experts" to develop the security patches,
Zhang said.

More here:
http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100AWYYFHO
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