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Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK)

  • From: Matthew Palmer
  • Date: Thu Jun 07 19:59:10 2007 
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:01:54PM +0000, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> > I strongly recommend you read Richard Clayton's paper on how (among
> > other things) one could hack the Cleanfeed system to *find* the really
> > bad stuff. He and his colleagues at the Cambridge Computer Lab also
> 
> yup, read it, which was part of the reason for the note I sent... these
> sorts of blocking mechanisms don't seem to achieve the goals expected, and
> even in many cases make the goals of the 'icky pict' crowd more achievable
> :(

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- Matt