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May 10, 1997:
A
response letter sent on May 5 from our pro bono lawyer to
CYBERsitter President Brian
Milburn, in response to the
demand letter
sent from Milburn to Peacefire on April 24 (see below).
April 24, 1997:
CYBERsitter CEO Brian Milburn has sent a
letter to
Peacefire stating that the CYBERsitter filter file codebreaker
violates "U.S. and International intellectual property laws".
Of the links that we have placed from Peacefire to Solid Oak
Software's site, Milburn wrote: "Further use of
these links to our private facilities will be viewed as trespassing and intentional
harassment. We demand that these links be removed immediately."
Full text
of the letter
More quotes
from Brian Milburn
(off-site and unofficial)
April 23, 1997:
Click
here to download
the CYBERsitter codebreaker, csdecode.zip.
The "CYBERsitter filter file codebreaker" is NOT a tool for
hacking around CYBERsitter. It is simply used to un-encrypt the
list of sites that CYBERsitter is blocking.
When you download CYBERsitter, it comes with a list of web sites
to which the program denies access. But the list of sites that
comes with CYBERsitter is stored in an encrypted file, so that
parents, teachers, and other customers cannot find out what the
program is blocking except by trial and error.
As a result, CYBERsitter blocks access to sites like
www.Peacefire.org and www.Spectacle.org because we criticize their
product (see the
CYBERsitter page that
started it all). Meanwhile, their customers do not realize what the
program is filtering because they cannot read the encrypted "filter
file".
The "CYBERsitter filter file codebreaker" is used to decrypt the file
and reveal to the user the complete list of sites that CYBERsitter
is blocking.
Click here
to download the CYBERsitter filter file codebreaker,
csdecode.zip.
NOTICE: CYBERsitter has altered their installation program to detect
whether you have a copy of csdecode.zip on your computer. If
it detects a copy of the codebreaker it will refuse to install.
To defeat this, download a copy of CYBERsitter's encrypted filter
file directly from
ftp://oaktree.solidoak.com/Anonymous/cywin0.opt.
Click on that link with your right mouse button and pick "Save Link As".
That will store the file cywin0.opt on your hard drive.
NOTE:Lately CYBERsitter has been periodically removing
the file cywin0.opt from their FTP server. If you can't
download the file, try the link
again later. They are going to have to put the file back eventually,
because that file is what CYBERsitter customers use to update their
filter file over the Internet. (CYBERsitter periodically adds new
sites to its "bad site" list, and customers are encouraged to
download the latest version often.)
Once you have a copy of cywin0.opt,
follow the instructions that come with the CYBERsitter codebreaker
on how to decrypt the file.
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