Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:09:34 -0800 To: Rich Burroughs From: rebv@hotwired.com (rebecca vesely) Subject: Re: Cybersitter vs. Haselton in Internet World Cc: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu X-Fc-Url: Fight-Censorship is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/ X-Fc-Url: To join send "subscribe" to fight-censorship-request@vorlon.mit.edu >It's my understanding that Milburn sent email to Media3 making the threat, >and I believe I've seen it quoted. Did your reporter know about that? >Can someone re-post it here, or let me know if I'm remebering things >wrong? > Yes, I quoted the letter in my story on this several weeks ago, which was mentioned by Internet World (it appeared in Wired News, not in Wired magazine). It's unclear whether the reporter for Internet World spoke to Media3. In any case, I stand by what I wrote and believe it was an accurate account of the situation at the time. Here is part of the letter sent to Media3's administrator from Mr. Milburn, forwarded to me by Media3: "Mr. Haselton seems to have more than a casual knowledge of the inner workings of CYBERsitter. Our main concern is that children will learn of methods of disable or hack CYBERsitter from his efforts. In light of that, we have referred this matter to our attorneys and are going to add all IP addresses assigned to MEDIA3 to our blocking list. We will also block all newsgroups he posts anything regarding our product in. We realize this is an extreme measure and regret that our customers will no longer have access to any sites serviced by MEDIA3. I am not sure if any of our current customers are MEDIA3 subscribers, but as they will no longer be able to access their e-mail and such, we will offer any affected customers complete refunds. Unfortunately, this young man is quite resourceful, and we believe that simply blocking his IP address will not be sufficient. He can easily get it changed, and we do not wish to devote any further time into the damage he is causing than necessary. We have over 900,000 licensed users and the potential for damage is extreme." -rebecca vesely rebecca vesely | wired news | http://www.wired.com