I always worry about what is being blocked.. do any of these products give
access to their databases? There was much talk about NetNanny blocking
any site that was critical of NetNanny!
What exactly is "hate" for instance? <irony>We all know that ALL muslims
are terrorists, so how can we be sure that all their websites are
blocked!! Anything to do with breasts is obviously porn, so can we be
certain that chicken recipes are kept out? </irony>
It isn't trivial. There are endless examples of censorship because of an
"agenda", either political, moral or religious - or heaven knows even
because of OS prejudice.
A superficial search of the SurfControl site doesn't show any indication
of what is censored and what isn't, just some vague "guidelines".
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Broun, Bevan wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:32:14 +1100
> From: "Broun, Bevan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Web blocking software - anyone know of any good stuff?
>
> There is a product ($$$) called ContentKeeper which I think is worth
> looking at. They build there databases of what site is what automatically
> with all the ContentKeeper devices out their contributing to a central
> databases. I think this design makes some sense.
>
> I think it is linux inside. Its just an appliance.
>
> BB
>
> on Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:57:36AM +1100, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Folks.
> >
> > As part of my "get Linux into the company by the backdoor" sneakiness, I'm
> > looking for some web blocking software.
> >
> > We have a pile of steaming dog faeces called "Surf Control" which runs on
> > WindoZe, but it's not even close to acceptable for us, so I'm sniffing at
> > alternatives.
> >
> > What I want is a product which sits on the network in promiscuous mode,
> > sniffs out HTTP requests, and then kills the connection based on rules
> > which include content type, time, username etc etc.
> >
> > Anyone know of a product for Linux which will do this? It needs an active
> > database {Surf Control's one redeeming feature is that they maintain a
> > large database of websites, and continually update it} and catagorise them
> > into stuff like "adult/sexually related", "computing and the internet" and
> > other classes.
> >
> > I know I'm asking a lot - Surf Control is a nice piece of software, except
> > for the fact that it doesn;t bloody work properly! I want the features,
> > I'd just like to do something similar on an open source platform.
> >
> > DaZZa
> >
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