Re: Censorware battle heats up; CyberSitter blacklist now public

[geeman <geeman@best.com>]

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>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/story/3355.html
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>Teen Offers Way to Crack Blocking Software
>by Rebecca Vesely
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>3:03pm 23.Apr.97.PDT A Tennessee college student has posted a software
>program on the Web that can be used to decrypt a list of sites blocked
>by the prominent blocking software Cybersitter. The company that makes
>the program is furious, and an attorney versed in Net law says the
>student could face legal action.
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>Bennett Haselton, co-founder of the teen Web site Peacefire, on Monday
>posted a program that he wrote specifically to crack the "filter file"
>that comes with Cybersitter. The 18-year-old junior at Vanderbilt
>University says it took him two days to write the software. The filter
>file is frequently updated by Solid Oak Software, the company that
>owns Cybersitter, but was taken offline Tuesday by the company.
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>"He is violating every intellectual property law ever written," said
>Solid Oak president Brian Milburn. "It costs us tens of thousands of
>dollars to maintain that list. It's none of his business what is on
>that list or what we do with it."

/\/\/\/\/ And this genius Milburn protects it with some bullshit that can be 
cracked in 2 days!?!?!  He deserves everything he gets and more.  Should
be a lesson.

I look forward to more fireworks!


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