<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> * +1 to Sascha's very astute comments below. Caryl > From: sascha-ml-ui-sugar-soas@silbe.org > To: soas@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 > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ </body> </html>