RE: [seul-edu] [Fwd: Child Internet protection act CIPA]

[Jim Wildman <jim@rossberry.com>]

Have you looked at SquidGuard and or Dan's Guardian?  You seem much
closer to this than I've been, but I thought the 'fact' of the providing
filtering was what was legislated, not the how or how much.

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Jim Wildman                                            jim@rossberry.com
903-736-4393

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Spurling, Shannon wrote:

>  As far as I know, there aren't any comercial packages that meet the CIPA
> requirements. I have been told that CIPA requires that you be able to filter
> all traffic based on content, including images. Nothing that any company has
> out now will do that properly. Lot's of the filter companies say they are
> CIPA compliant, but they only meet part of the requirements, and are based
> on a central blacklist of sites that requires a human censor to review the
> content of the sites they block. Many schools are using the standard
> blocking software as a stop gap, as proof of compliance while a more
> suitable solution is reasearched. This is the information that I have gotten
> from the security department where I work ( MOREnet, a state research and
> education network in the Mid-West).