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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/

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