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  "Does a software program have a right to snoop into your
   computer's Internet cache?

  "That's the question at the heart of the latest controversy
   between the makers of CYBERsitter, the Internet content-filtering
   software, and Bennett Haselton, cofounder of Peacefire, an Internet
   anticensorship group for teenagers.

  "Haselton recently discovered that CYBERsitter scans your hard
   drive's Internet Explorer cache when you install the trial version
   of the software; and, if it finds evidence that you've visited the
   Peacefire site, the installation will abort with a cryptic error
   message."

Read the rest of the story from PC World Magazine:

http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/database/body.pl?ID=970702181157

And read more about it at:

http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/CYBERsitter/

Stephen E. Collins
http://web66.umn.edu/
sec@web66.umn.edu

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