Green Dam Maker Ordered to Fix Security Holes

June 15, 2009 at 9:53 am PT

The head of the company that created the Web-filtering software that the Chinese government will require on all new personal computers acknowledged that the current version of the software contains security flaws and said that they were trying to fix the problems, according to China Daily.

Bryan Zhang, CEO of Jinhui Computer System Engineering, the primary developer of the software, told the state-run newspaper that authorities had ordered the Jinhui to fix security glitches in the software. A notice sent to PC makers last month said they must include the software with all new PCs shipped in China as of July 1.

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