-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, David Rosoff wrote:
At 12.10 AM 7/3/96 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
CyberWire Dispatch // Copyright (c) 1996 //
Install the programs and Junior can't access porn. No fuss, no muss, no bother. "Parental empowerment" is the buzzword. Indeed, it was these programs that helped sway the three-judge panel in Philly to knock down the Communications Decency Act as unconstitutional.
I've wondered .. could a creative child circumvent these filter programs using a URL-redirecter, like where you see something like http://www.one.site.com/cgi-bin/rd?http://www.porno-site.com/ or are they not URL-based?
If the child is creative enough, he will be able to boot DOS from a bootdisk and remove the line from config.sys that starts up the filtering software. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xe3bf2169 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." --George Orwell, _1984_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMdr7NLZc+sv5siulAQERvQP/YyzeV1YtbR0ba0RkiosU/r6kzDDJeDSc OllJ4dAwlRAvJgNdlbX0aa0pQ47e7QNDu6yZsUv2j1MfJSvVcNlMLIWIaWP0lEvJ 4L+Oedxearr6fSwjgDa40Tv+/hWC3qwV7QHLKriRuyQxDE7nWbz8wMl2G1i91rAg a5dD8JrALeg= =RucL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----