Re: UK: Government Sets Target Date for Blocking Child Porn

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () well com>]

> To: Jerry Hill <malaclypse2 () gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Government Sets Target Date for Blocking Child Porn
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:56:25 -0400
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2006 11:38:18 EDT, Jerry Hill said:
>
> Umm.. hello?  Next time, check the caffeine levels in the bloodstream... ;)
>
> > Impossible?  Seems pretty easy to me. 
>
> And the next paragraph...
>
> > Obviously, neither of those is foolproof,
>
> Which is exactly *why* it's impossible.  Also, you have the
> [...]

Jerry did NOT say that it was EFFECTIVE, just that is would be easy to prove 
COMPLIANCE.

> "collateral damage" problem - if you have  2,593 different domains all
> vhosted on the same Apache server, it gets *really* difficult to block
> by IP address and not cause an issue.


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