On 28/03/14 23:45, Paul Sutton wrote:
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
Already have been, one game update file had the letters S, E and X
in sequence.. the filter blocked it. The words tip and iceberg
occur..
Julian
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