[FYI] (Fwd) NYT Profile of Cyberian Seth Finkelstein

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html

  July 19, 2001

  Cracking the Code Of Online Censorship

  By JENNIFER 8. LEE

  EVERY year the Electronic Frontier Foundation hands out its Pioneer
  Awards to people who have played crucial roles in the history of
  technology. Recipients have included visionaries like Ivan
  Sutherland, creator of some of the first computer graphics programs;
  Douglas C. Engelbart, an inventor of the mouse; and Linus Torvalds,
  inventor of the popular Linux operating system.

  This year one of the three winners was Seth Finkelstein, an activist
  who decrypts filtering programs, the software used by private
  companies, libraries and schools to block out undesirable sites. As
  a founder of the Censorware Project, an anti-filtering advocacy
  group, Mr. Finkelstein has influenced public debate and legal
  decisions, including a First Amendment case on filtering policy at a
  public library in Virginia.

  But most people have probably never heard of him, and until recently
  that is the way Mr. Finkelstein, a reclusive 36-year-old computer
  programmer, wanted it. Over the last six years he has spent hundreds
  of hours decrypting the blacklists of popular Web filtering programs
  like Cyber Patrol and X-Gear.

  [....]

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