1996-07-04 - Re: CWD – Jacking in from the “Keys to the Kingdom” Port

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From: David Rosoff <drosoff@arc.unm.edu>
To: Alan Olsen <markm@voicenet.com>
Message Hash: 95d3d8fc3a5384b72aa57cd65d2f6f36da62cfad87ec02f40f1da262abaffb3c
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UTC Datetime: 1996-07-04 05:11:00 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:11:00 +0800

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From: David Rosoff <drosoff@arc.unm.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:11:00 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <markm@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: CWD -- Jacking in from the "Keys to the Kingdom" Port
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960704020949.330fe182@arc.unm.edu>
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At 05.30 PM 7/3/96 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
>At 06:58 PM 7/3/96 -0400, Mark M. wrote:

>>If the child is creative enough, he will be able to boot DOS from a bootdisk
>>and remove the line from config.sys that starts up the filtering software.

>Or just remark it out and reboot.  Or does the filtering software make it so
>they cannot use an editor as well...?
>
>Sounds like a pretty easy thing to bypass given a small amount of clues.
>(Makes me wonder how the usually clueless parents are going to block access
>to their kids who usually understand the technology better than they do.)

It would not have stopped me.

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