Web porn filter 'useless'

[The_Unbeliever]

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2172043,00.html

Sydney - The Australian government on Monday admitted no internet child safeguards were foolproof after a teenager claimed he was able to break through its multimillion-dollar pornography filter in minutes.

Haven't they heard of Dansguardian?

Of course porn filters will (and can) be bypassed, but at least the Ozzies could have saved themselves the money (and embarrassment)

 

[SecretCode]

Web porn filter 'limp'

 

[krycor]

haha

 

[ic]

Sounds like s/w that one has to download and install locally on the PC that kids would be using, so the easiest hack to access porn, that would take less than 30 minutes, would be to boot from a Linux LiveCD, and access the net and all its porn that way - which would actually protect the PC from harmful malware associated with porn etc sites...