My crusade for web content filtering

[Furmanek, Greg]

I guess you are next to be banned by the Matel censoring software.
Or maybe even sued.

<just joking>

The Wolf

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: J.L.Francois [mailto:frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us]
-> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 6:36 PM
-> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
-> Subject: Re: My crusade for web content filtering
-> 
-> 
-> Sure, just drag me into this ;)
-> 
-> Sorry to say that any free off the shelf software I have seen do this
-> does not work well with content.
-> 
-> The whitelist idea is the safest and most effective, even if 
-> it cuts off
-> good pages it is easy to update on request.
-> 
-> I use the API in my proxy and feed the data stream
-> thru a Perl script to rewrite WWW pages and add my banners.
-> Because everyone on the web writes crappy non-standard HTML
-> I have trouble with my own scripts being able to identify
-> HTML content as it streams thru.
-> 
-> I think that any proxy should have something similar as a feature
-> since it is just STDIN STDOUT being handled.
-> Its really nothing more than regexp handling so be prepared for some
-> hairy script generation.
-> 
-> Oh yeah, unless you are examining content, then proxies like mine
-> can be configured to bypass any filtering scheme you create 
-> based on URLs.
-> 
-> I will be doing URL obfuscation/hashing by next year which 
-> will be designed to defeat any filter based on URL.
-> 
-> It seems like on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:14:09PM -0700, 
-> plug@arcticmail.com scribbled:
-> Orig Msg> 
-> Orig Msg> ObJLF:  You know, you could combine my
-> Orig Msg>         anonymous web proxy with the
-> Orig Msg>         jarjargonizer to bypass a web
-> Orig Msg>         content filter...
-> Orig Msg> 
-> 
-> JLF Sends...
-> -- 
-> When I said to people to use PGP/GPG for all email they laughed at me
-> and said they don't use encryption because they have nothing to hide
-> or it was too hard to learn and use.
-> When the press released that the USA FBI Carnivore system 
-> and UK RIP bill
-> allowed for easily reading their email, they called me to 
-> ask for help 
-> configuring PGP and GPG. I laughed.                ( J.L.Francois )
-> 
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