[ale] Squid ACL?

[Robert L. Harris]

Not in the slightest.

No we can't get 100% of the sites, but if we can limit 90% or so and
let most of the goobs know they're being monitored that'll fix almost
all the problems.  As per the 1-2 kids who think they're smarter, we
have 3 people who'll be getting daily copies of the access logs, 
filtered of course.

If we don't get something in place the school is going to say they're
open to lawsuits and just yank the connection all together.  This will
ruin it for everyone instead of just a few who get caught for not behaving.

They are in plain view, but you'll always get one or two who think they
can hid a browser in the background and alt-tab when teacher is busy.

Robert


Thus spake Fletch (fletch at phydeaux.org):

> 
>         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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