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Article #261Re: Censorship is here
From: Duffman
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:53
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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X-Google-Thread: 109f97,63e5ceb8560246c8 X-Google-Thread: fd95d,63e5ceb8560246c8 X-Google-Thread: 10a0c5,63e5ceb8560246c8 X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,63e5ceb8560246c8 X-Google-Attributes: gid109f97,gidfd95d,gid10a0c5,gid10df0c,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Duffman <Duffman@duff.beer> Newsgroups: aus.net.access,aus.censorship,aus.consumers,aus.politics Subject: Re: Censorship is here Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:53:59 +1000 Organization: Duffman thrusting in the direction of the problem! Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4a67brFrkgh7U1@individual.net> References: <1144898433.100361.322950@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <4a62ioFri8cnU1@individual.net> <e1ko96$eom$1@news-02.connect.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 5aUKJOIphGU6N5xF2yfdxA//aFe16+HKJv2/vGKwJwAjQauEwU User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <e1ko96$eom$1@news-02.connect.com.au>