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[NTSEC] NT Displays Plain-Text Netware Passwords (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

=====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian | "If you're gonna die, die with your|./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|boots on; If you're gonna try, just |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |stick around; Gonna cry? Just move along|\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |you're gonna die, you're gonna die!" |.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"| --Iron Maiden "Die With Your Boots on"|..... ======================== http://www.sundernet.com ========================= For with those which eternal lie, with strange eons even death may die. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 01:37:49 -0500 From: Patrick Hayden <patrick.hayden(a)ibm.net> To: ntsecurity(a)iss.net Subject: [NTSEC] NT Displays Plain-Text Netware Passwords Windows NT 4.0, with Microsoft's Client Services for Netware, or Novell's IntraNetware Client for Windows NT, writes plain-text user-id and password information to PAGEFILE.SYS. The user-id and password apply to Netware, however, users commonly use the same logon information for both NT and Netware. It is possible to then recover the plain-text information by using a disk editor. Tests have been performed (with more pending) on these systems: Windows NT Workstation 4.0 w/SP1 and IntraNetware Client for NT (970214) Pent. 133 Laptop 24MB RAM 50MB PAGEFILE.SYS Windows NT Workstation 4.0 w/SP1 and Microsoft Client Services for Netware Dual Pent 166 64MB RAM 80MB PAGEFILE.SYS Novell Netware 4.11 Server 1. Set /MAXMEM=12 in BOOT.INI so as to force swapping. 2. Load NT; Authenticate to NT and Netware (I used the same ID and Password for both systems.); Verify connection by mapping a drive. 3. To ensure that sufficient swapping takes place, run a large program (this forces the user-id and password information stored in RAM to be placed into PAGEFILE.SYS.) 4. Exit NT; Boot to DOS; diskedit PAGEFILE.SYS 5. Search for one of the following strings (do NOT include the "" items): IntraNetware Client: NWUserName="user-id" WlMprNotifyPassword="password" "UserName" (if the username is alone, the password will follow very closely) Client Services for Netware nwcs"password" (the password is all CAPS and will immediately follow nwcs) In a "real-life" environment, most likely there will be enough swapping on the system that setting the /MAXMEM switch will be unnecessary. The switch is only to help confirm that this hole exits. If anyone has any knowledge of this, please post it to the list. Patrick Hayden Security Consultant Ernst & Young, LLP patrick.hayden(a)ibm.net

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Re: The Net is Closing, the U.S. is becoming a Terror State
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > cyberpass.net is an unacceptable replacement for toad.com.] Why, because your Cocksucker pal John Gilmore can't pull plugs? > We're in a terror state when the War on Drugs, the War on Pornography, the > War on Terrorism, the War on Guns, and the War on Unlicensed Cryptography > makes us all criminals. I've been saying this for some time now. Any ideas where to emigrate to? --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: Do government employees have freedom of speech?
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > At 8:53 PM -0800 4/23/97, Bill Frantz wrote: > >I guess I have to defend my view. In general, people on this list believe > >that freedom of speech includes the freedom to lie. (I seem to remember > >having an exchange with Tim on the subject of truth in commercial speech a > >year or so ago.) > > I don't recall that. In any case, I am not arguing that the government has > any responsibility to stop lying, per se, I am saying that _employees_ of > the U.S. Justice or Treasury or State or Defense Departments are no more > free to "say whatever they wish" as employees of Apple or Intel or Sun are. Employees of C2Net don't mind. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Crypto moves forward: Commerce Dept panel and SAFE markup
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

X-POP3-Rcpt: declan(a)relay.pathfinder.com X-Sender: declan(a)mail.pathfinder.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:17:09 -0400 To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Subject: FC: Crypto moves forward: Commerce Dept panel and SAFE markup Sender: owner-fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Reply-To: declan(a)well.com X-FC-URL: Fight-Censorship is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/ Encryption is again bubbling to the surface of Washington politics. Today the Department of Commerce announced that it was creating a new committee to advise it on crypto-issues. A department official told me it would be composed of "businesses that export encryption," and interested parties have 15 working days to file comments. A way for the White House to split industry opposition and persuade high tech firms to buy into key escrow? Hmm... On the Hill, crypto legislation that would lift export controls is about to advance farther than ever before. (Last fall, Sen. Exon killed any chance that pro-crypto legislation had in the 104th Congress.) Rep. Bob Goodlatte's crypto bill (SAFE) will move to subcommittee markup next Tuesday at 2 pm in Rayburn 2237. After the full committee reports the bill, it moves to the international relations committee. Sen. Conrad Burns also would like to move forward with his Pro-CODE bill in May. Problem is, Goodlatte's SAFE bill, which has about 70 cosponsors, does more than just relax export controls and prohibit mandatory key escrow. It also creates new criminal penalties for using encryption to further a criminal act. Now, some say that it's innocuous -- and a good tradeoff for getting export controls lifted -- but I'm not convinced. When encryption is widespread and present in telephones, radios, cell phones, wireless modems, web browsers, televisions, and maybe light switches, *any use* of any electronic appliance will involve encryption. (Who wants a hacker playing with your toaster?) Remember that Maryland bill that would criminalize sending "annoying" or "harassing" email? If the Goodlatte bill became law, Marylanders who signed their messages with PGP or telnetted to local ISPs could be slammed with an all-expenses-paid trip to the Federal pen for five years. In other words, SAFE would turn state misdemeanors into Federal felonies. This is not good. A coalition of groups is sending a letter to Goodlatte tomorrow supporting the bill but expressing concern over the criminalization provision. Interested in signing on? Email David Sobel: sobel(a)epic.org. -Declan ***************** Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act (Introduced in the House) `Sec. 2805. Unlawful use of encryption in furtherance of a criminal act `Any person who willfully uses encryption in furtherance of the commission of a criminal offense for which the person may be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction-- `(1) in the case of a first offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both; and `(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both.'. ***************** Federal Register, April 24, 1997: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption; Notice of Establishment The Secretary of Commerce has determined that the establishment of the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption is in the public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed on the Department by law. The Subcommittee will advise the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, on matters pertinent to the implementation of an encryption policy that will support the growth of commerce while protecting the public safety and national security. The Subcommittee will consist of approximately 25 members to be appointed by the Secretary to assure a balanced representation among the exporting community and those Government agencies with a mandate to implement policy regarding encryption. The Subcommittee will function solely as an advisory body. Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding the establishment of the Subcommittee to Lee Ann Carpenter, Committee Liaison Officer, OAS/EA/BXA, U.S. Department of Commerce, MS: 3886C, Washington, D.C., 20230. Telephone: 202-482-2583. FAX: 202-501-8024. Dated: April 18, 1997. Sue E. Eckert, Assistant Secretary for Export Administration. [Thanks to JYA. --Declan] ------------------------- Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is public. To join fight-censorship-announce, send "subscribe fight-censorship-announce" to majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu. More information is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/

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Censorware battle heats up; CyberSitter blacklist now public
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

X-POP3-Rcpt: declan(a)relay.pathfinder.com X-Sender: declan(a)mail.pathfinder.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:43:35 -0400 To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Subject: FC: Censorware battle heats up; CyberSitter blacklist now public Sender: owner-fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Reply-To: declan(a)well.com X-FC-URL: Fight-Censorship is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/ You probably know about Brian Milburn. The irascible and foul-mouthed president of Solid Oak Software, which sells CyberSitter censorware, Milburn is best known for threatening journalists with criminal prosecutions, blocking the web sites of his critics, and calling writers a "trickle of piss." He's so obnoxious that even his fellow censorware vendors distance themselves from him. One of my articles about his exploits is at: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,453,00.html Now he's on the warpath again. His latest target: one Bennett Haselton, a college student and outspoken critic of CyberSitter's blocking policies. (Milburn blocks the National Organization for Women and New York's echo.com, among other university sites and Internet providers.) Haseleton earlier this week posted a short DOS program that decrypts CyberSitter's secret blacklist. Milburn was enraged. He accused Hasleton of various crimes and today demanded that Haselton stop *linking* to CyberSitter's pages. Read on for more... -Declan ********* >Return-path: <bennett(a)www.media3.net> >Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:59:10 -0700 >From: Brian Milburn <bmilburn(a)solidoak.com> >Subject: Demand letter >X-Sender: Brian Milburn >To: bennett(a)peacefire.org >Organization: Solid Oak Software, Inc. > >The following is a copy of a certified letter mailed to you on April 24, 1997. > >------------------------------ > >Bennett Haselton >Vanderbuilt University >Box 1161, Station B >Nashville, TN 37235 > >Re: www.peacefire.org > > >Dear Mr. Haselton: > >Please let this letter serve as notice of the following: > >1. You have posted a program on your web site called "CYBERsitter filter file >codebreaker". This program illegally modifies and decodes data and source >code >protected by U.S. and International intellectual property laws. > >This program performs this action without permission of the copyright owner. We demand >that this program be removed immediately. > >2. You have placed links on your web site to various locations on servers owned and >operated by Solid Oak Software, Inc., a private corporation. These include, but are >not limited to, HTTP links, FTP links, and e-mail links and private e-mail addresses. > >You have done this without permission of Solid Oak Software, Inc. Further use of >these links to our private facilities will be viewed as trespassing and intentional >harassment. We demand that these links be removed immediately. > >Your failure to comply with these demands immediately upon receipt of this letter will >be met with appropriate action. > > >Sincerely, >Brian Milburn, President >Solid Oak Software, Inc. > > > >____________________________________________ > >Brian Milburn >Solid Oak Software,Inc. - Santa Barbara, CA >bmilburn(a)solidoak.com - CIS: 74774,551 >http://www.solidoak.com - CIS: "GO SOLIDOAK" > *********** http://www.wired.com/news/politics/story/3355.html Teen Offers Way to Crack Blocking Software by Rebecca Vesely 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. 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. "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." Milburn would not say whether the company planned to take legal action, but did say that Solid Oak "does not condone any kind of crime." A recent list of sites blocked by Cybersitter - pulled before the company took the filter file offline - was posted anonymously to Declan McCullagh's fight-censorship email discussion list Monday. The decrypted file shows that while most of the sites blocked by Cybersitter are pornographic in nature, a number are not. Among the sites blocked by Cybersitter on Monday were Cyborganic Gardens; the National Organization for Women; the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; several regional ISPs; Peacefire; the Ethical Spectacle, which has criticized Solid Oak's blocking practices; and the chocolatier Godiva. "I think they are misrepresenting their product," Haselton said. "It's not just the fact that they are blocking Peacefire, it's that they are violating truth-in-advertising practices." Solid Oak says it blocks sites that focus on "topics such as adult or sexual issues, illegal activities, bigotry, racism, drugs, or pornography...." This is not Haselton's first run-in with Solid Oak. In December, he posted a list of Web sites blocked by Cybersitter, which at the time included The Well and Mother Jones magazine. Haselton maintained that he got the partial list by surfing the Web with Cybersitter installed on his computer. Solid Oak threatened to sue, saying that Haselton had cracked into their computers to get the list, and also threatened to block Peacefire's ISP, Media3. The company never acted on the threats. But Haselton could now face prosecution for violating copyright laws. He maintains that he skirted the law because he did not post the list of blocked sites, just information on how to access the list. He also noted that he accessed the Cybersitter list using an old version of the software that does not carry a copyright warning. However, one lawyer said she wasn't sure Haselton's reasoning will hold up if the case goes to court. "[Solid Oak] went to the trouble of compiling the list. From a competitive standpoint, someone else could use Haselton's software to get the list and start their own blocking software company," said Shari Steele, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "There is an ownership interest here." Steele said that although someone who used the list for competitive purposes would be more likely to face legal ramifications than Haselton, it is not out of the realm of possibility that a court would side with Solid Oak. ------------------------- Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is public. To join fight-censorship-announce, send "subscribe fight-censorship-announce" to majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu. More information is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/

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Cato forum on liquor advertising and electronic media
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:32:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Cato forum on liquor advertising and electronic media It was about a year ago when I wrote that just about every Federal agency was scheming to regulate the Net. I take no pleasure in saying I was right: we've seen agencies from the FDA to the FTC to the PTO try to grab a piece of cyberspace. Indeed, last Friday at an Internet Caucus briefing, FTC Commissioner Christine Varney said new regulations and laws were necessary; she predicted FTC regulations would be forthcoming later this year. The Center for Media Education is trying to accelerate this process. In a fearmongering report earlier this year, the group demanded that a slew of government agencies -- the FCC, FDA, FTC, CDC, NCI, and the WHO -- take "urgent agction" to "protect" America's children from tobacco and liquor advertising online. Sound familiar? It should. Net-nemesis Sen. Exon and conservative activists like Bruce Taylor and Donna Rice-Hughes trotted out the same lines two years ago when arguing for the Communications Decency Act. The Cato Institute is holding a forum next month on just this issue. Attached is the announcement and an excerpt from the CME report. -Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:44:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Robin Hulsey <rhulsey(a)cato.org> The Cato Institute invites you to a Policy Forum Liquor Advertising and the Electronic Media featuring Fred Meister Distilled Spirits Council of the United States Dan Troy Wiley, Rein & Fielding Sam Kazman Competitive Enterprise Institute Heather Mizeur Rep. Joseph Kennedy Tom Howarth * Mothers Against Drunk Driving For years makers of "hard" liquor refrained from advertising their products over radio and television, but last year some companies began doing so. Some companies have also established an advertising presence on the Internet. Is this free speech protected by the First Amendment, or is it a new health threat that should be subject to regulation? Tuesday, May 6, 1997 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. (Reception to follow) Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 To register, news media please call Robin Hulsey at (202) 789-5293 or E-mail to rhulsey(a)cato.org. * invited **************** Excerpt from: Center for Media Education Report http://tap.epn.org/cme/execsum.html Alcohol and Tobacco on the Web: New Threats to Youth Executive Summary The combination of these new Web marketing technologies gives marketers of alcohol and tobacco an arsenal of powerful new weapons. Urgent action is needed to ensure that effective safeguards are put in place to protect young people from the harmful effects of online marketing of alcohol and tobacco. Because of the unique nature of the interactive media, many of these new forms of advertising, of particular appeal to youth, appear to be inherently unfair and deceptive. Some of these practices may already be violating the law. The Cigarette Act, which has since 1971 kept advertising of cigarettes off radio and television, applies to "any medium of electronic communication subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission" and thus would be applicable to the Internet as well. The alcohol industries have not been subjected to the same kinds of legal barriers to advertising as tobacco. However, all advertising, including online advertising, is subject to the current laws against deceptive, unfair, or other illegal practices. [...] Among the recommendations for action, the Center for Media Education calls for the following steps to combat the online promotion of alcohol and tobacco products to young people: 1. Congress should conduct hearings on the online marketing of alcohol and tobacco to the nation's children. 2. The Federal Trade Commission should use its authority over unfair and deceptive advertising to immediately launch an investigation into these practices. The FTC should also expand its current inquiry on online privacy to include alcohol and tobacco marketing data-collection practices. 3. The Food and Drug Administration should carefully monitor online tobacco promotion developments and develop any additional safeguards needed to protect youth that are not already covered by the Cigarette Act. 4. Federal agencies responsible for the public health, including the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control, should examine the implications for public health of online marketing of alcohol and tobacco products. 5. The national public health community, including professional medical organizations, should launch initiatives to educate their members and the public about this issue. 6. The international health community, including the World Health Organization, should launch similar inquiries. Special attention should be given to the negative consequences of new media marketing in the developing world. The U.S. should play a leadership role in the international arena to create effective global safeguards. 7. Parents and educators should help educate our nation's youth about these new dangers. They should establish policies in the schools to limit exposure of underage youth to these sites. 8. Alcohol industries should abide by their own self-regulatory codes and stop targeting youth in all media, including online. 9. Cigarette companies should refrain from moving onto the Internet to market and promote their products. If companies fail to comply with the Cigarette Act, appropriate legal action should be taken. ###

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PGPSteps
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-------------< COMMENTS BY Harka >-------------- Since there was a quite surprising interest, when I announced the draft-version of "PGPSteps", I'll post it this time straight to the list. If somebody would like to give it a WWW-home, go for it (please let me know the URL). Harka ----------< END OF COMMENTS BY Harka >---------- Here is "PGPSteps", a brief installation guide for PGP 2.6.2/2.6.3i for DOS/Windows. I started writing it, cause it seemed, that a lot of people were getting turned off by the sheer amount of homepages, front-ends, 150-pages+ FAQ's etc.. All of these things are great, but were usually only mastered by the most of the determined. The majority of potential users though didn't want to go through all that trouble. Hence "PGPSteps", an attempt to provide an easy starting ground, that let's newbies know, where to get PGP, how to install it, answers the most important questions and gives pointers to other resources. All that in a short and easily understandable form, that even not-so-technical people might be able to deal with. I hope, I have failed not too miserably... Comments to "PGPSteps" are welcome. Harka PGPSTEPS.ASC

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Re: Cato forum on liquor
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- -=> Quoting In:declan@well.com to Harka <=- In> The Center for Media Education is trying to accelerate this process. In> In a fearmongering report earlier this year, the group demanded that a In> slew of government agencies -- the FCC, FDA, FTC, CDC, NCI, and the WHO In> -- take "urgent agction" to "protect" America's children from tobacco In> and liquor advertising online. Shesh, such garbage one can only read with a whisky and a cigarette... The only way to "enforce" that would be censorship from ISP-side, because any reasonable tobacco/liquor company would/will just set up a server outside the US. Ciao Harka -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM1/8/zltEBIEF0MBAQFcngf/TbFmBb7/Dval5nF3q2uOF9mcedvOrV/H XGXt1Dunh9U+jF/P7qskTKgvIxOic106rmXzG+OBE4FAF8Iec8wr+8AP1drkNxQw RV3oyH/5xm1s7lNoaCDdMumcanO6254wZhF1m5pc8KlY8LWCOmU5vhZlvlVM076E bvVGdy+GpSL7wG7NdwspuPIWFN/O0TEO5y4snbdRqrDNWsfciCBO/WM5I6ojiQ+j zzF4tGwZECfHFmuoNWOlBEN/PZyFi4EJldyDY0U7CIYl6hxL0nMemg4iB5zK3z6E BW1PbScYBeCmR+fk/XGOHNxmBA1ShpqIue7WWaIeDhC3yrxfT/nYvQ== =t4Ve -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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Re: Downloading Software + viruses (HOAX)
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This guy is scaring me. It's not real, right? On 24 Apr 97 at 18:28, Scott Shrader wrote: > I know You can get a virus this way. Do you want me to send you one > this way?!?! That sound's like a threat. I am going to have to report you to your ISP. Sorry. Abuse or Root: Your user is threating to send me a virus through e-mail. Can you stop him, please? See headers at bottom of message. Thanks. > > Yours, > Scott > > > At 04:03 PM 4/23/97 -0700, you wrote: > >Scott, > > > >Get off it. You can't get a virus from reading an e-mail file. > >We've been all over this, up and down. You must open a file and > >run it to get a virus. Now you *may* be able to get a virus from > >reading 'web based' e-mal like hot mail, but using a regular e-mail > >software it WILL NOT happen. No way, no how, so put up a copy of > >this "microsoft letter" on your web site you claim to have and post > >some verifiable information or just go away and shut up. > > > > > > > >On 23 Apr 97 at 17:58, Scott Shrader wrote: > > > >> The another reason I know this can happen is I got a letter from > >> Microsoft and on C-net(on the TV), talking about a virus that > >> once you opened it. Could curruped you e-mail program(only work > >> on internet Exsplore and microsoft e-mail programs). > >> > >> Yours, > >> Scott Shrader > >> > >> >On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Scott Shrader wrote: > >> > > >> >> Sorry to burst your bubble, but I know for a fact that you can > >> >> get a virus from a e-mail. I've heard from other people how > >> >> have gotten viruses this. I even heard of how to do it. You > >> >> can't get the virus, unless your open it and/or get it from > >> >> your e-mail server. > >> >> > >> >> Yours, > >> >> Scott Shrader > >> >> > > > > > > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ Scott Shrader _/ > _/ shrader(a)scsn.net _/ > _/ http://www.scsn.net/users/shrader/ _/ > _/ or _/ > _/ http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/2352/ _/ > _/ Columbia, SC _/ > _/ 29223 _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > Received: from rosie.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by

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Re: Censorware battle heats up; CyberSitter blacklist now public
by geeman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/story/3355.html > >Teen Offers Way to Crack Blocking Software >by Rebecca Vesely > >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. > >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. > >"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! > >------------------------- >Time Inc. >The Netly News Network >Washington Correspondent >http://netlynews.com/ > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This list is public. To join fight-censorship-announce, send >"subscribe fight-censorship-announce" to majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu. >More information is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/ > > > >

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