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Net filters foiled again

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Date:          Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:00:09 -0600
From:          "Richard Hornbeck" <rhornbec@counsel.com>
Subject:       Net filters foiled again 
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Net filters foiled again
    By Courtney Macavinta
    Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    February 3, 1999, 1:05 p.m. PT

    Undermining Net filtering seems to be a full-time job for
    mathematics
graduate student Bennett Haselton. Today he is at it again.

    Haselton launched a program that easily generates a valid password
    for
the prominent Net blocking software Cyber Patrol 4.0. Using Haselton's
"CPCrack" program, a minor could sidestep the Cyber Patrol controls
his or her parents had installed on a Windows operating system to
limit access to sexual, profane, or violent content on the Net.

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Richard Hornbeck
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