[AusNOG] Public Internet Access Policies

[Skeeve Stevens]

No... as long as you say it is best effort...

Essentially you are relying on a 3rd party.. websense...


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On 8 October 2014 11:37, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:

> Re Liability of the provider, I'd be concerned that if you DO make an
> effort to filter, and then someone manages to get questionable content up
> (as in porn, not as in the awesome cartoon), whether you are then accepting
> liability for the person being able to get to that content?
>
>
> On 8 October 2014 11:33, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>
>> In my view, Filtering in this scenario is less about what the user can
>> access, but more about the liability on the provider.
>>
>> IMHO, Filtering should be mandatory in public access areas. We generally
>> use Juniper SRX's with Websense backend and harsh category selection.
>>
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
>> *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
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>> On 8 October 2014 11:05, Andrew Yager <andrew at rwts.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> We’re currently developing a public internet access solution for a
>>> public space, and one of the things we’re considering is content filtering
>>> as part of the solution.
>>>
>>> Obviously the usual caveats apply around success, ability to circumvent,
>>> etc, but given all of these caveats, what are people’s general opinion on:
>>>
>>> - is it a good idea to do this in a public space (think children,
>>> families, etc all around)
>>> - what sort of filtering have you implemented in the past? We are
>>> looking at a solution that would do simple category filtering at the
>>> moment, with the option to blacklist and whitelist particular URLs
>>> - what sort of categories would you generally block?
>>>
>>> I’m personally of the opinion that it’s a “good idea” in this context
>>> although not fool proof.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrew
>>>
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