Slightly off topic question I'm afraid....
Would you mind divulging to the list the extent of your schools blocking/filtering policy, or detailing any software (in addition to Squid)
We don't really have a blocking/filtering policy as such. We use RM's IFL
service which is heavily filtered by them under their own filtering policy.
We do however ask students to sign an Acceptable Usage Policy, this
basically says that the internet is to be used for educational purposes and
that sites that are visited are ones that you would be happy to show a
teacher/parent. We block a few sites locally here. Such as
http://java4fun.com which is not filtered by RM, but students playing
online Java games all day does nothing for the speed of our internet
connection or their education !
RM filtering policy can be found at
http://www.ifl.net/support/filteringpolicy.html
Happy to help
Regards
Dave Turnbull
ICT Technician
The Purbeck School
www.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Wood
I don't have any particular view point (afterall first rule of security if
'that which is not implicitly "allowed" is "disallowed"' so why shouldn't this apply to web content?), but would be interested in the current state of filtering in the schools at the moment.
Simon Wood
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