As we move into our 3rd year we would like to ruminate on some of the highlights through our years. Starting with 2006 coverage we will move forward to the present day.
*Highlights from 2006*
StopBadware attracted notice from the beginning. Launching the project combines the efforts of Harvard Law School’s “Berkman Center for Internet & Society”:http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3608881 and Oxford University’s “Oxford Internet Institute”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5251742.stm with Sun Microsystems, Lenovo, and “Google”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5251742.stm.
Within the first year, StopBadware did not pull punches. Using the “badware guidelines”:http://www.stopbadware.org/home/help as a basis Stop BadWare was able to identify problems in both “AOL 9.0″:http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3629096 and “Kazaa”:http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/06/12/07/HNworstofthebad_1.html. AOL’s next release responded to many of the concerns in the StopBadware’s “report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/reports/reportdisplay?reportname=aol90vr.
In addition to those actions StopBadware has helped to “monitor”:http://www.searchviews.com/index.php/archives/2006/03/stop-badware-coalition-takes-fight-to-kazaa.php to spread of malignant software by “testing”:http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/2082 and “screening”:http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/052406-stopbadware-hall-of-shame.html thousands of URLs.
We had good beginnings and have made substantial progress during the following years. Next week I will spotlight some news from 2007.
