SR> the best place for content filtering is at the application layer.
No, the best place for content filtering is in that grey lump mounted between the shoulders of most humans. But that relys too much on personal responsibility for the NetNannies to accept. Besides the fact that most of the NetNannies don't seem to use that grey lump that often.
It *should* be at the "noodle layer", but I think it will be a lot more practical to install it at the application layer, unfortunately. :-/ [Note: What follows is a rant, but I think it's an important rant.] I think parents probably are expecting the internet to be a babysitter like they expect TV to be. A certain elected official (Exon?) tried to explain the net, and said it was "like a telephone"... <sigh> In a world where TV is about as high-tech as most people get, people don't even understand the potential of a single unlinked computer, nevermind the potential of the internet and crypto. Maybe the average person is trying to learn these things without learning the basics, and thus ends up clueless about everything... If people don't understand how text, programs, images, sound, video, and eventually ALL THINGS can be described as a series of ones and zeros, how can they understand the potential of the internet? It would be like trying to understand light bulbs without knowing what electricity is. ===================================================================== | Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | | Email: steve@edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | | PGP Fingerprint: 11 C8 9D 1C D6 72 87 E6 8C 09 EC 52 44 3F 88 30 | | -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, IANAL. -- | ===================================================================:)