Wired: Mattel's Filter Fiasco to Court | Linux Today

Wired: Mattel’s Filter Fiasco to Court

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 27, 2000

“A federal judge in Boston will hear arguments on Monday over
whether a program that reveals Cyberpatrol’s secret blacklist
should be banned from the Internet.”

“A subsidiary of toy giant Mattel, which sells Cyberpatrol, has
sued two cryptanalysts for publishing instructions on how to
circumvent the encryption and view the program’s controversial
scrambled list of verboten websites and newsgroups.”

Mattel last week expanded its so-far fruitless efforts to
rid the Net of the “cphack.exe” utility by directing attorney Irwin
Schwartz to send bulk email to people who hosted mirror sites or
linked to the program.
His messages — dubbed “subpoena spam”
by detractors — also included a subpoena that asked for a log of
anyone who downloaded cphack.exe.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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