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[FYI] (Fwd) NYT Profile of Cyberian Seth Finkelstein
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- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:34:07 +0200
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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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