LionMage writes "Much has been made ahead of how China's Green Dam windows must be installed on all new PCs in China, and of more recent expo that the windows may create exploitable safeguard vulnerabilities or even provide the Chinese regency with a ready-made botnet to use for potentially nefarious purposes. (One of those prior miscellaneous even discusses how Green Dam incorporates blacklists from CyberSitter.) Now the BBC is reporting that Solid Oak's CyberSitter systems program may have had more than just a compiled blacklist lifted from it. Solid Oak is claiming that actual pieces of their code somehow ended up in Green Dam. From PC Magazine's article: 'Solid Oak Software, the creator of CyberSitter, claims that the look and feel of the GUI used by Green Dam mimics the style of CyberSitter. But more damning, chief administrant Brian Milburn said, was the fact that the Green Dam code uses DLLs identified with the CyberSitter name, and even makes calls back to Solid Oak's servers for updates.'" Relatedly, reader Spurious Logic writes that Green Dam won't be mandatory after all, as it should be to an unnamed conclusive with China's monastery of big business* and lore Technology.

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