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IP: SmartFilter's Greatest Evils - censorware & privacy/anonymity
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:52:50 -0500
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 03:16:12 -0500 (EST) From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com> To: farber () cis upenn edu Available at http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greatestevils.php SmartFilter's Greatest Evils An anticensorware investigation by Seth Finkelstein Abstract: This paper examines what the censorware product SmartFilter considered to be the worst websites, as measured by the number of categories under which the site was blacklisted. It was discovered that two broad classes of websites were maximally blacklisted. These were privacy/anonymity service sites, and language-translation services. In retrospect, this is in fact an obvious requirement of censorware, as any private or anonymous browsing ability is antithetical to the goal of control in censorware. __ Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf () sethf com http://sethf.com
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