[ale] Squid ACL?

[Robert L. Harris]

Great.  And there's a debian package, which is downloading now.

The disclaimer is a good idea.  "If you're going to a sight that
shouldn't be blocked, please inform your instructor so we can
deal with it."...

Thanks.



Thus spake Bao C. Ha (baoha at sensoria.com):

> 
> 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         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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