[3432] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: configuring a site to ban porno/violence www access...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Knobbe)
Sat Nov 2 02:24:44 1996
From: "Frank Knobbe" <FKnobbe@ix.netcom.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 23:35:08 -0600
Reply-to: FKnobbe@ix.netcom.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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On 1 Nov 96 at 14:32, Paul Phillips wrote about: Re: configuring a
site to ban porno
> > 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?
> This is www-security, not www-medieval-policy-enforcement.
> I hope nobody with the expertise to answer your question accurately
> will help you; your effort is doomed to failure regardless.
I can't believe the ignorance I read here. www-security has to do with
world wide web access and security, right? If we talk about security
at a site protected from incoming connections, or outgoing
connections. What is there difference?
Whereas I don't really support 'banning' sites, I can understand that
a workplace wants to block access to certain areas on the net.
Otherwise the employees maybe playing or browsing 'cool sites' too
much, instead of doing their job and using the internet as a
(research) tool.
To answer the question: Most proxy server provide the capability to
'allow all and filter some' or 'allow some' outgoing requests to http
sites. Even Wingate provides this feature. Shop around and get some
more detailed information about various proxy server. If your network
is Windows or NT based, check out Catapult. There are proxy servers
for Novell available, and of course Unix...A webcrawler search for
Proxy Server should lead you to a fewplaces.
This is my last comment to this list. Time to say good bye. The
niveau of this just keeps on sinking....
Regards,
Frank
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