On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Mark Rogaski wrote:
An entity claiming to be David Rosoff wrote: : : > That "creative child" would have to be pretty damn smart to do : >what you described. : : It would actually take less creativity to do the other things, bypass the : config.sys, etc. The child would thus be perhaps a little TOO creative. :) :
2 short replies in one post:
A) Who said anything about a creative child? How about a creative c'punk?
I'm not following you. I don't think many people on this list are faced with the problem of getting around software used to filter out pornography, drug info, and other evil things tearing at the moral fiber of today's youth. (Hint: I write this with tongue firmly in cheek.)
B) Forget the CONFIG.SYS ... what about kids using Macs or some future "Kid Safe" system that has the filters in an eeprom? I'm talking about bypassing the censorship on the client-server level. Relatively platform independent.
Using a hardware based filter is about as bad as using the IP security header fields for content descriptions. It's not at the level where filtering belongs. Filtering should be at the software level where it currently is. Since this can easily be broken, it might be better to have "Kid Safe" ISP's that would use a firewall to filter data. -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xe3bf2169 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." --George Orwell, _1984_