>From: "Brian Milburn" >To: Lindsay Haisley >X-Mailer: Re:PLY Beta1 97-0320b Solid Oak Software, Inc. >Organization: Solid Oak Software, Inc. >Subject: Re: Regarding your list of prohibited sites >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:10:34 -0800 >Message-ID: <19970321191034154.AAA170@acorn.solidoak.com> > >GET LOST! > >On 03/21/97 12:09pm you wrote... >>Sir: >> >>I understand that the list of prohibited sites distributed with CYBERsitter >>is encrypted, and that this has been the cause of considerable controversy. >> I understand also that your reason for doing this, as is also the case >>with other such products, is to prevent children (who in many cases are >>smarter than their parents regarding computers!) from deciphering and >>reading the list. If the purpose of your software it truly to further >>parental control, why not use some form secure cyrptography (single or >>double key) to encrypt your prohibited sites database and provide the key >>for same to parents to keep secure. This would allow parents to review >>your choices and give them the last word (which they should in fact have) >>and yet secure encryption should prove difficult to break for anyone not >>holding the correct key. >> >>If I have a room in my house which I don't want my kids to enter, I decide >>what goes in it, lock the door and keep the key myself. I would not trust >>a third party to either keep this key, or to make decisions on my behalf >>regarding what is to be kept locked away. This is certainly the source of >>a good portion of the controversy in which Solid Oak currently finds itself >>involved. >> >>Lindsay Haisley (______) >>FMP Computer Services (oo) "The bull >>fmouse@fmp.com /------\/ stops here!" >>Austin, Texas, USA / | || >>512-259-1190 * ||---|| * * * * * * >> ~~ ~~ http://www.fmp.com >> > >____________________________________________ > >Brian Milburn >Solid Oak Software,Inc. - Santa Barbara, CA >bmilburn@solidoak.com - CIS: 74774,551 >http://www.solidoak.com - CIS: "GO SOLIDOAK" > >