INTERNET FILTERING

[Michael Aldrich]

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Filtering Facts wrote:

> Michael H. Aldrich wrote:
> >Another interesting on filter use is in today's NY Times Cybertimes at:
> >
> ><http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/06/cyber/articles/23filter.html>
> >
> >It would be a good read after the Parker column. 
> >
> 
> Yes, it's about how a group of activists apparently de-crypted WebSense's
> stoplist of 270,000 sites and found 11 bad blocks, or .004%  From this these
> guys conclude that WebSense's practices "profound negligence illustrated by
> the numerous bad blocks included in the product's blacklist."
> 
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Actually, according to the first paragraph of the article, the word
"dozens" is used, and later in the article is discussion of "several
hundred" miscatagorized sites.

Does anyone have a guideline as to how many bad blocks or
miscatagorizations are enough to warrant negligence?

Michael

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