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Re: Censorship is here

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From: Duffman
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:53
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netvegetable wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:32:20 +1000, Duffman wrote:
> 
>> Such a thing will never work, long term.
>>
>> It would be like having the ISP virus scan your Email for you. Are you
>> safe, Do you trust them ?
>>
>> People do think they are safer with these ISP's and therefore don't even
>> bother with their own Email Virus Scanner. In reality there are so many
>> ways to get a virus, and these people are usually the worst for getting
>> Virus's and not recognizing a Internet Scam when they see one.
>>
>>
>> Even existing Commercial programs can not stop 100% of material because
>> other programmers are trying out smart them.
> 
> I'd have thought such a plan would require a complete 100% database of all
> pr0n sites out there, constantly being update. Not possible.
> 
> And if, as stated in the article, it blocks IP addies instead of
> hostnames, innocent sites will get censored.
> 

I have my own DNS blocking utility, I update it weekly and contains
about 500,000 hostnames. It catches all the spyware crap and most of
the really bad annoying shit. But stopping it all, impossible.
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From: Duffman <Duffman@duff.beer>
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Subject: Re: Censorship is here
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:53:59 +1000
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