Re: Anti-spyware at the Gateway

Somebody. <somebody.@nospam.russdoucet.com> wrote:
> > I doubt that. If one single site remains reachable, which supports
> > proxying or even inline gatewaying, then this will not work at all.
> > And there are so many sites, that it is very unlikely, that whitelist
> > filtering in such a way will ever work.
> They are, in fact, blocked. If one gets through, it would be through an
> event such as getting noticed and categorized one way and changing content
> afterwards.

Ridiculous. How should one update this category system if it should ever
work seemlessly?

> But as soon as you tried more than a few of "so many sites" and
> got repeated blocks in that very special category, your machine would be on
> watch from other means, and would subsequently be caught doing such
> activities.

I doubt that, because it's very easy to even set up new sites again and
again.

> > There is no such thing like a categorization of harmless web sites.
> Why not?

Because, how do you want to decide, what's harmless, what you don't know.
Again, this results in a complete whitelist schema, and this means losing
connection to the open network again.

> Perhaps you should examine Websense. There is indeed such a thing.
> Your saying it doesn't exist, doesn't make that so.

I don't say, that Websense does not exists. Of course it exists. And of
course it has the same problems like everything like that has, because
those problems are by concept.

> > "Don't try to solve social problems with technical means. It will not
> > work."
> One might argue that you are trying to solve a technical problem with social
> means. :-)

Don't think so. The problem, that you're not trusting in your own staff
definitely is a social problem.

Yours,
VB.

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