Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:29:18 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd box as a porn filter? Message-ID: <20010724152918.V90847@everest.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <3B5D65E0.460B8B63@iowna.com> References: <000501c113fe$2fef08e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3B5D65E0.460B8B63@iowna.com>
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--hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> [20010724 15:11]: writing on the subject 'R= e: freebsd box as a porn filter?' Bill> > >> Dear FreeBSD, Bill> > >> Bill> > >> I'm relatively new to Unix. A good friend of mine has converted= me to Bill> > >> FreeBSD, and I'm enjoying it. Bill> > >> I do have a question- as the administrator of a small network, = I'm Bill> > >> wondering if it's possible to set up FreeBSD on a box and have it Bill> > >> perform filtering of pornography. I realise that I can set up a= FreeBSD Bill> > >> box to perform packet filtering (although I still need to figure= out how Bill> > >> to do that, exactly). But I'd like to prohibit nodes on our net= work Bill> > >> from viewing pornographic material, and a few other general webs= ites. I Bill> > >> do not have an external 'router' per se - We have an ISDN connec= tion to Bill> > >> our ISP (which does not provide filtering). Bill> > >> Bill> > >> I've looked at available hardware designed specifically for spam= and Bill> > >> porn filtering for networks, but the price of the hardware is to= o high Bill> > >> for my small network of 15 nodes and 2 servers. Bill>=20 Bill> You know, I wasn't paying much attention to this thread, but the solu= tion Bill> is very simple. I've seen one client do it and it works fine. Bill> First, establish a written policy that work computers are for work, p= eriod. Bill> And establish a written policy for punishments for viewing potentially Bill> offensive material on company computers. This leaves nothing to be qu= estioned. Bill> Then put up a squid proxy (which is a good idea anyway, for the sake = of Bill> optimizing your existing bandwidth) and make it public that you're lo= gging Bill> *everything* that people do on their computers, in compliance with the Bill> written policy. Bill> Then, after a month or so, do a text search through the logs for words Bill> like "porn", "sex", etc. Track down the IPs of who did it, and deal w= ith Bill> them in accordance to the written policy. We only had to approach 1 p= erson, Bill> after that, word got out that the policy was serious and we haven't s= een Bill> anything in the logs since. Bill> It takes a very short amount of time to check the logs each month, an= d even Bill> less time if there are no violations. Inasmuch as this one is effective, I am sure this guys wasn't looking for a 'military' way of achieving it ;-)=20 BTW Bill, what your rank? Captain? Sgt Major? <LOL> <Just to lighten up things> -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. You can never plan the future by the past.=20 -Edmund Burke=20 --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7XWoen7LIsuxjem8RAhIoAKCn2gCMQJrXOM5xbX14n82SPffCjgCgr6jG lQ8wh7jl++Qw93fvgS/8gt4= =JRgk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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