RE: Multi-RBL Checks [Was: RE: Websense and political censorship]

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Ferg, you have a good point - it is up to each organization to choose
what category is listed. Hence, if there was a filtering category of
"politics", then one would reasonably assume sites like
LittleGreenFootballs to be listed.  

However, it would nice to see if sites are actually in a filtering list
-- in other words, enter a site and see what web filters view the site
as, even breaking out by what category.  But perhaps this is just not
realistic. 

Alex


-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:31 PM
To: Alex Eckelberry
Cc: kdyke () keycomputerconsultants com; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Multi-RBL Checks [Was: RE: [funsec] Websense and political
censorship]

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- -- "Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com> wrote:

> It occurs to me that it would be quite valuable to have a site where 
> one could check the blocking status of various filtering engines, much 
> like you can check a virus at VirusTotal or check for a spam black list

> on DNSSTUFF.  In other words, enter in a website, see what filters
block or
> not.   Is there some service like this out there?

Hi Alex,

There are various "Multi-RBL" Checkers out there -- what do you ant to
check exactly?

For instance:

 http://www.robtex.com/rbls.html
 http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

...etc.

But if you are looking for what gets "black-listed" with the various
content proxy-cache systems, then it is more an issue of what each
individual organization decides it's policy will be on "acceptable"
content.

Companies like WebSense, SurfControl, etc., do nothing more than
categorize content, and allow the implementing organizations that use
their product(s) to determine how/why to block|allow.

- - ferg

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--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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