UK Adult Filter

[srochford]

Solutions like filtering in the home are fine for sensible parents who understand the need for such a device. For Windows users I believe that Windows Live Family Safety 2011 is pretty good (and it's free).

 

Sadly, there are too many parents who either don't know or don't care about web safety and this is why there's a proposal to move the filtering further up-stream.

 

The technological problem then is that instead of needing a low spec device to handle the filtering for half a dozen users, you need mega-devices which can cope with thousands of users. You can't really do it by DNS which would be quick and low impact (because http://www.myspecialsite.com/porn is bad but http://www.myspecialsite.com/fluffybunnies is good) so you have to have URL based or content based filtering which needs more CPU.

[john]

The Netgear Router filtering stuff was ok, I had a friend using it and it sort of worked, his son soon learnt how to get around it he said, but it did help cut down the dodgy accidental google searches so he said.