Re: Filtering inappropriate content

From: Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com)
Date: 04/06/01 

Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 00:57:54 -0600
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>

Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
>
> In message <200103280405.LAA16283@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>, Olivier Nicole
> writes:
> > >The organization is looking to filter web content only. Apolgies for
> > >the confusion.
> >
> > Squid has some rules to do contents filtering I guess.
>
> I tried it. Squid is not all that effective. For example, matching
> expressions can be found in perfectly legitimate URL's, e.g. a sun.com
> web page has the character string "sex" in it (I think it was a Virtual
> Adrien component called RICHPsex), so my filter blocked it. I'm sure
> that operators of web sites that you want to block could name their
> files and directories with non-offending names, bypassing your filter.
> A squid filter may not have the desired effect.
>
> The only solution I can think of that works is to subscribe to a
> service that maintains a database of offending sites.

Real-time analysis is much more effective. Visit the RuleSpace site for
information on a commercial SDK that can do this on FreeBSD.

        http://www.rulespace.com/contexion/products/eatk/ 

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/
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