[Gllug] Content filtering proxy server

[Lucian @ lastdot.org]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Victor Churchill
<vchurchill at softwareshack.eu> wrote:
> 2010/1/9 Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The children now have a computer.  We discovered them watching
>> unsavoury things on youtube yesterday, so think it might be a good
>> idea to install a web filtering proxy server.  I've heard of using
>> dansguardian and also of squidguard in conjunction with squid.  Any
>> experiences, comments or recommendations?
>>
> Some routers come with a set of filtering rules you can choose to
> enable. My home Buffalo AirStation doesn't but I worked at a place
> with a BT router (can't remember the model name exactly, 'Home Hub?
> Business Hub? - this was a pretty small SoHo-sized office setup) which
> had loads of categories so you could screen out data that was
> categorised under a raft of categories - everything from XXX to
> hate-propaganda to tobacco&alcohol to auctions. I assume the router
> called home periodically to get its blacklists updated. We never
> actually activated the function, btw, so can't comment on its
> effectiveness.
>
> But you probably don't want to go getting a new router just 'cos your
> kids now have their own access to the 'net...
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And even so, it's quite complicated. How would one piece of filtering
software decide which youtube video is good and which is bad?
Hell, even wikipedia has some wacky pages unfit for children that age,
how will squid/blah/etc know which precise page is good or not? :)
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