On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 22:13, Steve Dunford wrote: > <snip> > Actually my son's is off the internet until I can get Dans Guardian > working on my ipcop box. > </snip>
> Now THIS is interesting... I have a (very) small school running IPCop as > their gateway box / DHCP server / anti-intrusion / firewall / etc... And > would like to know if there is a way to add content filtering or > similar, as they had a recent incident where a pupil who was in > detention managed to, undetected, power up a PC and sneak onto the > 'net... And get himself in trouble... :) Actually it's not the pupils which are the problem. It's the staff, because they will cause the news media to go beserk when they get caught and subsequently sacked, little Jonney is not news-worthy. Sad but true. > Can you enlighten me (us?) as to "Dans Guardian"? It searches for naughty words in a web page and attempts to block appropriately. Please note that blocking for porn is _never_ 100% effective, because in order to trigger the filter fairly obviously there has to be a trigger word on the page. There are quite a few porn pages out there which deliberately avoid the use of text which would trigger a filter, if naughty text is apparently present it's often hidden in an image so the filter software can't see it. On the other hand there are many pages which might use a single word in a correct contex which is acceptable in this society, yet the page gets blocked. You are in a no-win situation supplying one of those kind of products. Take care. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
