Comments on: No opt-out of filtered Internet http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2008/10/14/no-opt-out-of-filtered-internet/ Ramblings which occasionally resemble reality. This is the blog of Stewart Smith. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2008/10/14/no-opt-out-of-filtered-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-89145 James Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:13:59 +0000 http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/?p=1230#comment-89145 Don't forget the HTTPS MITM that 5/6 systems feature. Mmmm, insecure. Has anyone asked the banks what they think of that? Don’t forget the HTTPS MITM that 5/6 systems feature. Mmmm, insecure. Has anyone asked the banks what they think of that?

]]> By: Simon Rumble http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2008/10/14/no-opt-out-of-filtered-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-89143 Simon Rumble Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:48:34 +0000 http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/?p=1230#comment-89143 That false-positive rate was for the best system, which was also the slowest system. So you can have fast and inaccurate, or slow and a-bit-less inaccurate. What this means for you is you'll have more expensive broadband, that runs slower and inexplicably blocks random things that it shouldn't. By way of comparison, the filtering system at my work blocked the OpenCMS Wiki until I got them to whitelist it. Something I need for my work, and certainly nothing controversial. That false-positive rate was for the best system, which was also the slowest system. So you can have fast and inaccurate, or slow and a-bit-less inaccurate.

What this means for you is you’ll have more expensive broadband, that runs slower and inexplicably blocks random things that it shouldn’t.

By way of comparison, the filtering system at my work blocked the OpenCMS Wiki until I got them to whitelist it. Something I need for my work, and certainly nothing controversial.

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