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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment Even more curious, my porn spam continued and I actually had one site pop-up, unwanted, on my browser. If a content filter was being applied it wasn't apparent what the rational was for the decision to allow access or not. [07 Aug 2006]
Aussie taxes to fund 'free' porn blocks
News The minister's press release announcing the free porn-filters talked up a "comprehensive national community education campaign" designed to "ensure that all Australian families are aware of the benefits of regulating their children's internet... [21 Jun 2006]
Porn deluge ends as Google fixes smut glitch
News That wasn't the case earlier this week, however, due to a technical glitch that allowed porn to leak into Google Base search results. I was inundated with page after page after page of basically porn sites. [24 Nov 2005]
Child porn: ISP regulations set for Commons debate
News A Labour MP has proposed a bill to force ISPs to declare whether they have taken steps to prevent access to paedophilic websites. Margaret Moran, the Labour MP for Luton South, has introduced the bill under the 'Ten Minute Rule', which allows a... [26 Jul 2005]
Child porn 'unstoppable'
News Sharman's porn filter was described during the US Senate hearings as "the most comprehensive and effective, password-protected, family filter available with any P2P software application. Philip Morle, Sharman Networks' chief technology officer... [10 Dec 2004]
Spam museums to save junk email
News Stephen Newton has opened the virtual doors of his spam museum, where he aims to preserve the messages pushing porn, pills and other nonsense that are sent to him via unsolicited email. While there's been surprisingly little porn, Newton said the... [20 Sep 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
Comment Why aren't ISPs forced to filter spam and porn by law instead of charging extra to carry out this task? Pete Wheatfill asks: "I would like to know why ISPs aren't forced to filter spam and porn by law instead of charging extra to carry out this task. [05 Aug 2004]
Dealing with Spam
White Paper One third of spam mail is porn-based - and this figure is set to increase. Everyone is familiar with methods to block unwanted communications: we use voice mail, answering machines and caller ID to filter phone calls; companies hire staff to screen... [24 Feb 2004]
Gates has "magic solution" to kill spam in two years
News If it's another offer of a porn subscription, you reject it and the spammer is forced to cough up. The tech old guard of spam fighting - the humble mail filter - wasn't entirely rejected by Gates. The battle to rid the world's inboxes of spam has... [26 Jan 2004]
Can 'Can Spam' bill can spam?
News Or just allow porn fans to open them quicker, perhaps. The practice of misleading subject lines will be outlawed, as will disguising the sender's identity or hiding the pornographic content of emails, which the Senate hopes will allow recipients to... [23 Oct 2003]
Is there such a thing as good spam?
News Top of the spam hate list is porn, with 68 per cent rating it as their least favourite inbox visitor. When it comes to spam, UK consumers want to have their cake and eat it: unsolicited mail is acceptable, according to 50 per cent of the IT... [30 Sep 2003]
Pakistan to give away anti-porn software
News Besides governments, major search machines have also adopted anti-porn measures to prevent underage Net users from viewing explicit online content. For example, Google has introduced a SafeSearch feature for children to filter out links to adult... [04 Jul 2003]
Google's porn filtering technology shabby, study says
News Children using Google's SafeSearch feature, designed to filter out links to websites with adult content, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended. A report released this week by the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for... [11 Apr 2003]
Should you censor the family PC?
Comment Many porn sites 'hide' behind popular children's brands. According to research published yesterday, only 32 per cent of parents currently have a filter in place on the home PC. But how do you do it? It's likely that as a reader of a tech news site... [24 Sep 2002]
Parents shun filtering tools to control kids' surfing
News To ward off the threats of online porn and paedophiles, 68 per cent of the survey respondents monitor their child's use of the internet themselves, while 54 per cent say they make sure their offspring never give out personal details online. [24 Sep 2002]
