昨天，个人电脑杂志（PC Magazine）发表一篇文章（http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348705,00.asp）说，美国一家叫做Solid Oak Software 的软件公司指控绿坝软件盗用了他们的产品代码。这家公司的CEO Brian Milburn 说，他们公司也有一个过滤软件叫作CyberSitter, 而绿坝不仅使用了和CyberSitter相似的用户界面，而且盗用了CyberSitter 的动态链接库程序（DLL），这些DLL程序居然还要与Solid Oak Software的服务器相通信，提出更新版本的调用请求。
其实，最初发现这种盗版行为的并非Solid Oak Software公司。密歇根大学（University of Michigan）大学电子工程系的助理教授 Alex Halderman 对绿坝3.17版本软件做了“反向工程”后发现，绿坝使用了CyberSitter 的内容，而且Alex 宣称绿坝还有个安全缺陷。
Maybe the ones who were in charge got some benefits from the deal, who knows? That's the sad truth - so many so called "public servants" don't even think twice about wasting taxpayers' money, as long as they got something in their pockets. Without a good monitoring system, things like this will never cease to exist in China.
