StopBadware
Sign in to saveStopBadware was an anti-malware nonprofit organization focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites. It is the successor to StopBadware.org, a project started in 2006 at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It spun off to become a standalone organization, and dropped the ".org" in its name, in January 2010. The website stopped working around 2021 because of copyright restrictions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Field of work
- computing
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cambridge
- Headquarters
- Cambridge
- Official website
- www.stopbadware.org
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2020-00-00
- Commons category
- StopBadware.org
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- social media followers
- 4134
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- People
- Supporters
- Activities
- Defining "badware"
- Originally
- In the 2010s
- Google and StopBadware
- See also
- References
- External links
StopBadware was an anti-malware nonprofit organization focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites. It is the successor to StopBadware.org, a project started in 2006 at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It spun off to become a standalone organization, and dropped the ".org" in its name, in January 2010. The website stopped working around 2021 because of copyright restrictions.
== People == The founders of StopBadware.org were John Palfrey, then Executive Director of the Berkman Center, and Jonathan Zittrain, then at the Oxford Internet Institute. Both are now Professors of Law at Harvard University and faculty co-directors of the Berkman Center.
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