Re: Websense and political censorship

[Ken Dyke <kdyke () keycomputerconsultants com>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:08:14PM -0400, 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?

Filtering software is not something I keep up on however, I vaguely
recall a incident a number of years ago where a vendor considered what
it blocked a trade secret and was suing activitist (under DMCA?) to
prevent them from reverse engineering/decrypting/whatever said black
list.
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