[LINK] Survey Finds Support for School Filters (USA)

[Mark Hughes]

I've just been informed by the staff of my son's school that the
students have been accessing pornography sites from the school PCs
despite the censorware, and in fact the students have added some to
the 'favourites' bookmarks on some of the school PCs.

So the censorware used by the NSW Dept of Education clearly does not
achieve its objective.  If the students at my local high school can
beat the censorware, its it likely that students at other NSW schools
don't?

I now doubt the effectiveness of censorware used by other state
education departments, which by and large I suspect use similar
products/solutions to the NSW Dept of Education.


Regards, Mark

Mark Hughes
Director
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
effectivebusiness@pplications.com.au
www.pplications.com.au
+61 4 1374 3959


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Yee [mailto:danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au]
> Sent: Saturday, 21 October 2000 12:33
> To: Mark Hughes
> Cc: Link Institute
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Survey Finds Support for School Filters (USA)
>
>
> Mark Hughes wrote:
> > Get a list of sites back from the search engine.  Click
> on number one.
> > Its blocked.  Click on number two.  Its blocked.  Click on number
> > three - that's ok.  Go to site number three.  Click on a link from
> > site number three.  Its blocked.  Back to list from the
> search engine.
> > Click on number 4.
>
> Aha, that makes more sense.  Sort of like having the "dead link"
> percentage drastically raised...  that would be a right pain in
> the neck.
>
> How does censorware cope with Google's page caching, btw?
>
> Danny.
>