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Article #262Re: Censorship is here
From: Sylvia Else
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:04
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:04
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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. It would also have to block access to anonymising proxy servers. > > And if, as stated in the article, it blocks IP addies instead of > hostnames, innocent sites will get censored. Hopefully they've improved things a bit since this review was written, http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/report_isheriff.html but I'd be surprised if such issues had been eliminated. Sylvia.
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