Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:32:47 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: Clayton Tycksen <clay@tycksen.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd box as a porn filter? Message-ID: <20010724142628.J18061-100000@localhost.de> In-Reply-To: <3B5D65E0.460B8B63@iowna.com>
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I think this would be the best solution. The management (or the teacher) clearly states his opinion on things and explains his methods of control/punishment. Nobody can hide behind technology or the amusement to find a workaround. Uli. On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:11:12 -0400 > From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> > Cc: Clayton Tycksen <clay@tycksen.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: freebsd box as a porn filter? > > > >> Dear FreeBSD, > > >> > > >> I'm relatively new to Unix. A good friend of mine has converted me to > > >> FreeBSD, and I'm enjoying it. > > >> I do have a question- as the administrator of a small network, I'm > > >> wondering if it's possible to set up FreeBSD on a box and have it > > >> perform filtering of pornography. I realise that I can set up a FreeBSD > > >> box to perform packet filtering (although I still need to figure out how > > >> to do that, exactly). But I'd like to prohibit nodes on our network > > >> from viewing pornographic material, and a few other general websites. I > > >> do not have an external 'router' per se - We have an ISDN connection to > > >> our ISP (which does not provide filtering). > > >> > > >> I've looked at available hardware designed specifically for spam and > > >> porn filtering for networks, but the price of the hardware is too high > > >> for my small network of 15 nodes and 2 servers. > > You know, I wasn't paying much attention to this thread, but the solution > is very simple. I've seen one client do it and it works fine. > First, establish a written policy that work computers are for work, period. > And establish a written policy for punishments for viewing potentially > offensive material on company computers. This leaves nothing to be questioned. > Then put up a squid proxy (which is a good idea anyway, for the sake of > optimizing your existing bandwidth) and make it public that you're logging > *everything* that people do on their computers, in compliance with the > written policy. > Then, after a month or so, do a text search through the logs for words > like "porn", "sex", etc. Track down the IPs of who did it, and deal with > them in accordance to the written policy. We only had to approach 1 person, > after that, word got out that the policy was serious and we haven't seen > anything in the logs since. > It takes a very short amount of time to check the logs each month, and even > less time if there are no violations. > > -Bill > > -- > It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* > know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the > state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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