[SoaS] Limited Internet Access for SOAS

[Caryl Bigenho]

* +1 to Sascha's very astute comments below.
Caryl

> From: sascha-ml-ui-sugar-soas at silbe.org
> To: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:53:22 +0000
> Subject: Re: [SoaS] Limited Internet Access for SOAS
> 
> Excerpts from Raffael Reichelt's message of Sat Jun 19 06:47:02 +0000 2010:
> 
> > I had a talk with sebastian at linuxtag about including local squid
> > with a whitelist in soas.
> Censoring internet access with Sugar (or SoaS in this case) comes up
> regularly. If you really must filter (*), it's a task for the device
> providing internet access, not the client device (the computer running
> Sugar). One of the reasons is that it's way too easy ("kinderleicht"
> in german) to circumvent local filtering if the user has full access (as
> Sugar users do by design).
> 
> 
> (*) Whether filtering is a good idea / achieves what it's supposed to is
>     a separate topic and doesn't belong on the SoaS list. Let me just
>     mention that filters are very "dumb" tools with a lot of false
>     positives AND negatives (e.g. some german blacklist even blocked
>     Wikipedia). Having a filter can make the parents believe their kids
>     are "safe" and stop supervising them. It's quite similar to anti-
>     virus software and personal firewalls: they make you believe you are
>     safe, while in fact you are not.
> 
> Sascha
> 
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