Censorware: CyberSitter snoops your hard disk (fwd)

[Dianne L Parham]

I have no way of know if the following information is accuarate or not.  
I am passing this on the list as an informational item for those of you 
on this list interesting in filtering related issues.  I am not 
subscribed to the filter email list, I do not know Mr. Collins, I have no 
vested interest in Cybersitter or Peacefire.  I thought it might be of 
some interest to this list from a tehnology point of view.  
Dianne Parham
Grants Analyst
San Diego Public Librayr
dzp at library.sannet.gov

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:44:59 -0600
From: Stephen E. Collins <lmnet at WEB66.UMN.EDU>
To: LM_NET at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Censorware: CyberSitter snoops your hard disk

  "Does a software program have a right to snoop into your
   computer's Internet cache?

  "That's the question at the heart of the latest controversy
   between the makers of CYBERsitter, the Internet content-filtering
   software, and Bennett Haselton, cofounder of Peacefire, an Internet
   anticensorship group for teenagers.

  "Haselton recently discovered that CYBERsitter scans your hard
   drive's Internet Explorer cache when you install the trial version
   of the software; and, if it finds evidence that you've visited the
   Peacefire site, the installation will abort with a cryptic error
   message."

Read the rest of the story from PC World Magazine:

http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/database/body.pl?ID=970702181157

And read more about it at:

http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/CYBERsitter/

Stephen E. Collins
http://web66.umn.edu/
sec at web66.umn.edu

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