Hi,
is there any tool to filter pron and other rated sites and/or contents? We want to provide a S.u.S.E-based firewall for a school and think we must at least make it difficult to access any rated content.
Reg.
Matthias Jänichen
TRex has a content filtering suite. If you want to keep it updated they have some commercial service. Anyway you could just build some content filtering with your own list. TRex is a (in my opinion) powerful Firewall, opensourced and available for free at www.opensourcefirewall.com I have tested it on a SuSE 6.4 without major problems.
Franco Galian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Jaenichen" mj@percomp.de To: suse-security@suse.de Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 8:36 AM Subject: [suse-security] Porn/Xrate-Filter
Hi,
is there any tool to filter pron and other rated sites and/or contents? We want to provide a S.u.S.E-based firewall for a school and think we must at least make it difficult to access any rated content.
Reg.
Matthias Jänichen
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Matthias Jaenichen wrote:
want to provide a S.u.S.E-based firewall for a school and think we must at least make it difficult to access any rated content.
If you have mixed classes with enough girls you will not need a filter. Or do you want it to protect teachers?
Hi,
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] J�rgen Dollinger wrote:
If you have mixed classes with enough girls you will not need a filter. Or do you want it to protect teachers?
No. Girls generally don't hang out in the Computer Lab as much as boys do hence they don't filter very much. Further the main reason for porn filtering is keeping the parents (and some teachers) happy. You don't really want to be in the situation where parents ask you whether their kids will have non-restricted access to porn, violence etc. and you have to say "sure".
In the Schoolnetwork Goettingen we have a junkbuster-based central filter which is still being maintained by a couple of people. AFAIK they look at the logs and analyse requests in the "environment" of the request which caused the porn filter to hit (as someone looking for such content will have tried this before he was stopped by the filter and after).
It's impossible to provide true protection for the kids; but it is possible to make their parents and other teachers etc. feel better as there are not only people in schools in favor of Internet use.
Regards, -Sebastian
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At 11:58 02.02.01 +0100, Sebastian Fallert wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jürgen Dollinger wrote:
If you have mixed classes with enough girls you will not need a filter. Or do you want it to protect teachers?
No. Girls generally don't hang out in the Computer Lab as much as boys do hence they don't filter very much.
Im my special case the pupils are from primary school..
Further the main reason for porn filtering is keeping the parents (and some teachers) happy.
For the German readers: www.jugendschutz.net gives a nice overview. An article in the German "Beck's Gesetzes Texte" http://www.jugendschutz.net/filtering/Mmr50012.pdf states that an InterNet-Café has to care and monitor kids that surf. A written permit from the parents that their children might get in conctact with possible porn or hate content is not enough to fulfill the requirements of German Youth protection laws.
What is valid for Internet-Cafés is even more valid for schools.
BTW: Please avoid sending private CCs if the List is already receipient (I still do not understand why Reply-to is not used)
Reg.
Matthias Jänichen
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Matthias Jaenichen wrote:
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BTW: Please avoid sending private CCs if the List is already receipient (I still do not understand why Reply-to is not used)
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* Theo v. Werkhoven (theo@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl) [010202 14:55]:
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Matthias Jaenichen wrote:
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BTW: Please avoid sending private CCs if the List is already receipient (I still do not understand why Reply-to is not used)
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:21 +0100, Matthias Jaenichen wrote:
BTW: Please avoid sending private CCs if the List is already receipient (I still do not understand why Reply-to is not used)
We've been through this discussion a few thousand times. Please read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html and make sure you understand what you're asking for there ... No, we definitely don't want this!
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