Re: [Nettime-bold] What POLITECH doesn't want you to see

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>from: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh)
>subject: Politech: What CyberPatrol doesn't want you to see
>
>This work is brilliant. Kudos to Jansson and Skala.
>
>Now, blocking software being overzealous and buggy is nothing new. This
>article is four years old, and still timely:
>
>http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/cwd.keys.to.the.kingdom
>.0796.article
>
>But it's somewhat surprising that CyberPatrol hasn't cleaned up its act
>since being embarrassed so throughly back then.
>
>-Declan
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:38:18 -0500
>From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
>Subject: Cyber Patrol 4 reversed
>
>March 11, 2000 - ANNOUNCEMENT
>
>Cyber Patrol(R) 4, a "censorware" product intended to prevent users from
>accessing undesirable Internet content, has been reverse engineered by
>youth rights activists Eddy L O Jansson and Matthew Skala.  A detailed
>report of their findings, titled "The Breaking of Cyber Patrol(R) 4", with
>commentary on the reverse engineering process and cryptographic attacks
>against the product's authentication system, has been posted on the World
>Wide Web at this address:
>
>    http://hem.passagen.se/eddy1/reveng/cp4/cp4break.html
>
>The abstract of the report:
>
>    Several attacks are presented on the "sophisticated anti-hacker
>    security" features of Cyber Patrol(R) 4, a "censorware" product intended
>    to prevent users from accessing Internet content considered harmful.
>    Motivations, tools, and methods are discussed for reverse engineering
>    in general and reverse engineering of censorware in particular. The
>    encryption of the configuration and data files is reversed, as are the
>    password hash functions. File formats are documented, with commentary.
>    Excerpts from the list of blocked sites are presented and commented
>    upon. A package of source code and binaries implementing the attacks
>    is included.
>
>Eddy L O Jansson
>srm_dfr@hotmail.com
>http://hem.passagen.se/eddy1/index.html
>
>Matthew Skala
>mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
>http://www.islandnet.com/~mskala/
>
>
>So I took a look through the CyberNOT list and was pleasantly unsurprised
>by the program's zaniness, idiocy, and sheer lunacy. Incompetence and
>prudishness are still alive and well in the censorware industry!
>
>To be fair to CyberPatrol, the bulk of the verboten-links are sexually
>explicit, or at least may have been at some point in the last five years.
>But parents and libraries might want to think twice about installing
>something that can't tell a quilting club from sexybabes.com.
>
>For instance, CyberPatrol blocks all student organizations at Carnegie
>Mellon University, including (you guessed it) the Carnegie Threads quilting
>club, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and robotics clubs:
>   http://loiosh.andrew.cmu.edu/org/ (Sexual Acts / Text, Intolerance)
>
>For no apparent reason, it blocks the entire corporate site of Golden West
>Companies ("serving the communications needs of South Dakotans for over 40
>years"):
>   http://goldenwestcom.virtdomain.nortel.net/
>
>What Usenet newsgroups Cyberpatrol's morality crusaders find objectionable
>is arguably even more interesting. For instance, journalism discussions are
>off-limits because of "intolerance," which might be a just criticism of
>some corners of the industry, but certainly doesn't seem enough to ban
>discussions of newsgathering:
>
>alt.journalism:
>alt.journalism.music:
>alt.journalism.newspapers:
>alt.journalism.print:
>alt.journalism.photo:
>alt.journalism.freelance:
>alt.journalism.moderated:
>
>Some others include discussions of Philip K. Dick's science fiction
>(alt.books.phil-k-dick is sorted into drug/drug culture), feminism, Jungian
>psychology, food, Chinese culture, and chess and bridge.
>
>More info:
>   http://www.politechbot.com/p-00994.html
>   http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=censorware
>   http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=loudoun
>
>-Declan
>
>alt.abuse-recovery:
>alt.answers:
>alt.cybercafes:
>alt.feminism:
>alt.feminism.individualism:
>alt.multimedia.toolbook:
>alt.multimedia.director:
>alt.psychology.personality:
>alt.psychology.help:
>alt.psychology.person:
>alt.psychology:
>alt.psychology.jung:
>alt.psychology.adlerian:
>ba.motss (same-sex issues and discussions)
>fj.rec.food:
>fj.soc.culture.chinese:
>misc.activism.progressive:
>news.groups.reviews:
>news.groups.questions:
>news.groups:
>ont.general:
>princeton.general:
>rec.games.chess.analysis:
>rec.games.chess.misc:
>rec.games.pinball:
>rec.games.backgammon:
>rec.games.board:
>rec.games.bridge:
>
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