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Breaking of Cyber Patrol

Cyber Patrol Reverse-Engineering: Cyberpatrol is a "kid-control" filtering software. When Eddy L O Jansson and Matthew Skala reverse-engineered the software, and as part of that process found out how many sites it wrongfully blocks, they got into nasty trouble with Mattel - the toy company that owns Surfwatch Software, the makers of Cyberpatrol.

Posted by John on March 1, 2000 7:54 AM | |

 

 

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