Re: Access to Porn sites?

[Babak Oskouian <boskouia () MILLS EDU>]

Thank you all for your responses and suggestions. While discussing this
subject, I want to bring up liability issues as well. One of the concerns
we had was the fact that children on our campus can easily get on our Guest
network (via a self-registration process) and thus have access to anything
Internet offers. What are the implications of that? How likely is a law
suit filed by a disgruntled parent, for example?
Another concern is 18 U.S. Code  2258A.  As you know 18 U.S. Code  2258A
explicitly requires all Internet providers to report any and all digital
viewing, downloading and possession of child pornography to the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Very stiff penalties ($150,000
first incidence, and $300,000 second incidence) are imposed on any provider
for failure to report.  Do you think (or has your legal counsel explicitly
assured you) that your institute is exempt form this law?

Babak



On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:07 PM Babak Oskouian <boskouia () mills edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We at Mills College have been kicking around the idea of blocking access
> to porn sites on our network. Needless to say, we have gotten some push
> back. Our plan (if it is green-lighted) is to use the built-in "adult"
> filters that our Palo Alto firewall provides.
> I am curious as to how many of you block porn sites, and if you do and
> especially if you use a Palo Alto device, have you had to do a lot of
> fine-tuning of your filters to eliminate false-positives?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Babak
>
>
> *Babak Oskouian, Ph.D. | Campus Network Engineer | Information Security
> Officer*
>
> *Mills College | 5000 MacArthur Blvd | Oakland, CA 94613-1301*
>
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