ho to filter hundeds of domains ?

Oscar Ricardo Silva osilva at scuff.cc.utexas.edu
Fri Aug 31 14:42:28 UTC 2012


On 08/31/2012 08:22 AM, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> On 8/31/2012 2:50 AM, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>>> Again, it's not about how effective the block is or can be. Unless Italy
>>> becomes like China or even worse (but the US had the chance end up
>>> almost in the same situation very recently, so this is NOT an
>>> Italian-only problem), there is no way to inhibit users from reaching a
>>> given resource on the Internet: if the user is motivated enough he/she
>>> will circumvent whatever you do, eventually assisted by the counterpart
>>> he/she is trying to reach...
>> We are in much the same situation in Norway. All the biggest ISPs use
>> a list of child porn domains to be blocked, specified by the central
>> police authorities. *In principle* implementing this is voluntary for
>> the ISPs. In practice there is significant pressure to do so.
>>
>> Both the police and the ISPs are fully aware that blocking this at the
>> DNS level (the ISP recursive resolvers) won't prevent somebody who is
>> determined. But the police (and the government) still want this done.
>>
>> I sometimes suspect their view is of the type "We must do something.
>> This is something, therefore we must do it."
>>
> Nothing is better than paradise.
> A ham sandwich is better than nothing.
> Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than paradise.
>
>                              - Kevin


And you won't be able to afford that ham sandwich if you've been 
terminated from your job because you didn't follow the law.  We all have 
things in our jobs that we don't want to do but we do them anyway.  All 
the ridiculous suggestions and snarky comments aren't helping the 
original poster who mentioned these sites were considered illegal and is 
looking for other ways to do this.


Oscar






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