Judge Outlaws Anti-CyberPatrol Hack

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Two hackers, Matthew Skala of Canada and Eddy Jansson of Sweden, agreed on Monday to stop distributing a program they wrote called cphack that allows users to circumvent a popular Internet censor program called CyberPatrol. Yesterday, a federal judge in Boston issued a ruling prohibiting anyone from acting "in concert" to distribute the program.

Besides making the anti-filtering program available for children and others, the two hackers also posted a list of the sites that CyberPatrol was blocking.

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