Paper Info
Title
An Analysis of the Green Dam Youth Escort Software
Abstract
According to official Chinese media sources, the Green Dam Youth Escort (GDYE) software is intended to protect young citizens from viewing unhealthy information on the Internet. However, critics maintain that GDYE has serious security vulnerabilities that allow hackers to take control of computers installed with GDYE. Critics also claim that the software is designed to collect user data and keystrokes for transmission to remote servers for unknown purposes. GDYE was originally mandated to be pre-installed on every computer sold in the People's Republic of China. However, the plan was suddenly shelved in the face of intense international media attention. This paper evaluates the GDYE software's advertised functions and additional non-advertised capabilities. As the software may have spyware and malware functionality, the evaluation monitored the software behavior in a specialized controlled environment. The analysis was performed from a forensics perspective to collect digital evidence and traces in order to prove or disprove that GDYE captures and disseminates private information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-15506-2_4
ADVANCES IN DIGITAL FORENSICS VI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Green Dam Youth Escort,analysis,forensic perspective
Internet privacy,Computer security,Computer science,Server,Hacker,Digital evidence,Software,Malware,Private information retrieval,Vulnerability,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
337
1868-4238
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frankie Li1111.29
Hilton Chan2152.13
Kam-Pui Chow328339.82
Pierre K. Y. Lai47510.54