On 28/03/14 23:39, Julian Hall wrote:
On 28/03/14 21:45, Kevin Peat wrote:
On 28 March 2014 17:03:15 GMT, Gordon
Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Tom wrote:
As my daughters age the missuses requests for some kind of blocking
increases.
Any recommendations - pcs and android devices!
How about education and no unsupervised internet access?
Gordon
You are spot on re. education but any filtering/supervision is
just doomed to failure just like Cameron's firewall. I used
NetNanny [on Windows] with our kids 10 years ago just to limit
PC time, but in the age of families having multiple PC's,
tablets and phones [as have their friends] you have no chance of
stopping them doing whatever they want.
Amusing tale about Net Nanny... <pauldaniels> You'll like
this.. not a lot, but you'll like it </pauldaniels>
I used to work for an ISP who gave out free copies of Net Nanny to
customers. However when customers started installing it we had
some odd problems. They couldn't get their email, access their
own websites, and our website, the browser default wouldn't load.
It took a while as all other Internet access was perfectly fine,
but the penny dropped when we realised all the affected customers
had installed Net Nanny. The ISP's name was one of the banned
words in Net Nanny, so once you installed it you could forget any
hope of accessing servers on our network *head->desk* I
haven't named the ISP to spare the blushes of the astonishingly
stupid, but if you think of all the UK ISPs I'm sure you can think
of one whose name may fall foul of an over-eager parental access
control software.
Julian
I am waiting for the reaction if they block the barenakedladies (a
pop group or something ) website and wonder if they do, and
effectively brand them some sort of porn site, if they will get a
nice letter from them asking to correct the issue, a letter from
their lawyer or a lawsuit for defamation without all the niceties
before hand.
Lets hope they build some sort of Contextual AI in to all this,
otherwiser there could be real problems.
Paul
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