Re: Edu Internet blocking

[Rick Dearman <rdear@gameszone.net>]

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Michael A Hamblin wrote:

> What software is available for Linux that can be used for blocking or
> monitoring the Internet (or the Internet as educators see it, the Web)?
> Beside firewalls, caching proxy servers, and the like which I know are
> available for Linux, I had a couple other thoughts but I am not sure what
> options are avaiable.
>
> Transparent Caching proxies... so no proxy setting have to be made on the
> web browser, making it easier to support.
>
> Blocking specific sites... this could be done through a transparent proxy,
> but there would have to be a database of sites which are categorized for
> blocking/unblocking. Example of what I'm talking about...
>
> My old school district has filtering software called WebSENSE, which does
> blocking and maintains a database of 350,000 sites which are categorized
> (adult entertainment, alternative journals, cults, drugs, gambling,
> hacking, militancy, personals, pornography, racism/hate, sexual
> lifestyles, tasteless humour sites, weapons, violence, web chat) and the
> level of blocking can be controlled by the admin.  This is different that
> word bsed searches b/c research on the effects of say alcohol may end up
> blocked in various ways.
>
> Trouble is, I know of no Linux alternative, not to mention the price tag
> for such services.
>
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