California Software Maker's Fortunes Track Dispute With Chinese Gov't 94
concealment writes "For three years, a group of hackers from China waged a relentless campaign of cyber harassment against Solid Oak Software Inc., Milburn's family-owned, eight-person firm in Santa Barbara, California. The attack began less than two weeks after Milburn publicly accused China of appropriating his company's parental filtering software, CYBERsitter, for a national Internet censoring project. And it ended shortly after he settled a $2.2 billion lawsuit against the Chinese government and a string of computer companies last April."
Oh For Christ Sakes (Score:2, Informative)
From TFA:
"It looked like a routine message from Milburn, so DiPasquale clicked on the attachment, realizing only later that the e-mail address was a couple of letters off. Solid Oak employees received more bogus e-mails over the next few days, setting off alarm bells."
There is no advanced hackery here. Just the head of the company's daughter clicking on an email attachment by mistake, then chaos ensuijng. Thats when i stopped reading.
Whay would anyone have sympathy for Cybersitter? (Score:2, Informative)
Has everyone forgotten that they are authoritarian, sue-happy jerks already?
http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/CYBERsitter/ [peacefire.org]