On 12-12-14 13:28, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: > On 11/12/2014, 17:43, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> Rather than guessing what mozilla may or may not do based on the >> comments of someone that is not part of the mozilla community, it'd be >> better to try to get some facts. > > It seems to me that's what the original post was trying to do. Easier > said than done, though, since it's not clear who the people "with the > facts" actually are, and everybody has an opinion to contribute. Is this > related to SafeBrowsing? (CC'ing gcp)
Doug Turner just covered this on the Weekly Meeting. We've been asked to study the technical feasibility of doing this, and replied that the current SafeBrowsing architecture (used for malware and phishing protection) seems like it could handle this use case. Nothing more has happened, and will likely not happen without much more serious consideration of the policy and censorship issues related to it. So you could say that the official press release (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-global-action-to-deal-with-online-child-abuse) which just said "Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have committed to investigate the feasibility of implementing browser level blocking restrictions designed to prevent people getting access to URLs of known child abuse material via Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox." was accurate, and The Telegraph's claim that "...Mozilla will also announce plans to directly block people from accessing websites..." is just making things up. SafeBrowsing currently shows a warning page before you can enter sites that are blacklisted as containing malware or phishing pages by the provider (currently Google). We could add other providers and other blacklists. Note that SafeBrowsing can be disabled in several ways - and even if we didn't have an option for that, you could just compile it out anyway, yay for open source software - and the warning pages have an "ignore this warning" button on them that allows you to proceed even if the page is blacklisted. That said, there is a strong history of such government blacklists "accidentally" marking sites that criticize the government as being illegal (http://ccc.de/en/updates/2014/ccc-censored-in-uk), and a warning that the page contains child pornography and hence continuing may be criminal would stop many users from proceeding, even if they are technically able to bypass the warning in the first place. -- GCP _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
