[3428] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: configuring a site to ban porno/violence www access...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Cronin)
Fri Nov 1 11:49:00 1996
From: John Cronin <John.Cronin@oit.gatech.edu>
To: cwlim@ncs.com.sg (Henry Lim Chee Wee)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:40:39 -0500 (EST)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3279BEEB.15DF@ncs.com.sg> from "Henry Lim Chee Wee" at Nov 1, 96 05:12:11 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Once upon a time, Henry Lim Chee Wee told me this tale:
->
->I have a question. How well do you manage a "maximum possibly secured
->network" with respect to restricting internal users from accessing
->'banned sites' from the Internet?
I don't think you are going to be able to do this realistically. Certain
large sites that are stable and don't move are one thing. However, the
beauty of the Internet is the large and fluctuating population of service
providers (not ISPs, but Web pages and other Internet based services).
New sites that you want to ban are almost guaranteed to pop up by the
dozens every day. Sites you waste time checking for will disappear, only
to resurface at a new provider with a new name and IP address. If you
ever figure out how to continuously adapt to this, let the world know.
I am not in favor of what the Singapore government is trying to do,
but this would also be useful to tracking Spam mailers, and that is
something I would like to do. I don't think anybody has a truly
effective solution right now.
--
John Cronin
Office of Information Technology Customer Support Center 0710
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: john.cronin@oit.gatech.edu
phone: (404) 894-7563
