[ale] Squid ACL?

[Bao C. Ha]

There is an add-on package called squidguard that allows content 
filtering.  It also provides an initial database.

The idea is that all inappropriate sites tend to be linked together.
A spider can be sent out every night to collect the links and to
update the database.  There is also a mechanism to allow legitimate
sites, like yahoo.com, ...  And you can alsways update the database
by hands!

It probably is about 90-95% effective.  Not as good as commercial
packages, but they can't guarrantee 100% either.  I always put a
disclaimer about parental supervision is required and something
about this is not a censorship.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Fletch
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:16 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Squid ACL?
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> 
>         You're joking, right?  Aside from the inherent futility of
> attempting to stop middle/high school males from finding pr0n, there's
> really no way you can hope to get a complete enough list.  The reason
> companies selling products such as `Surf Watch' and the like make
> money is because they employ a staff of people who's full time job is
> to continuously update their lists of blocked sites (which is really
> all their product is; anybody can write an http proxy).
> 
> 
>         A better approach might be to simply make sure all computers
> are in public areas in plain view with the users supervised by a
> responsible adult.  If you still want a technological solution,
> require authentication to use the proxy and then cull over the logs
> after the fact (but that's still going to require someone to look for
> the banned sites).
> 
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