He was sitting at his desk studying a computer screen full of numbers when Matthew Skala realized he could really change things. He could make a difference in the world. He didn’t have to kill anyone, or even attend a protest march. Like a modern day Robin Hood, Skala would take from the info-rich and give to the info-poor. Using only his computer, he would write a 40-page essay and a small computer program, then fire off a quill of email arrows. That’s all. But this would be enough to bring on the wrath of corporate America, and the support of free thinkers the world over.
In late January 2000, 23-year-old University of Victory graduate student Matthew Skala teamed up with a fellow in Sweden named Eddy Jansson to take on Cyber Patrol, the most widely used Internet “Parental Control” software. The Victoria public library and all Vancouver schools use Cyber Patrol to limit access to pornography, violence and other questionable subjects on the World Wide Web. Cyber Patrol is made......
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