Mar 02

Internet Filtering – Bad Idea

Tag: Information, NewsFrannie @ 5:04 am

ISP PolicingThe world has heard of the process as with many countries who want to control their people with respect to information and other deemed to be potentially harmful sites, site blocking on the ISP level. many countries all over the world have tried to control it yet the advent of 3G data packet technology has rendered many of these measures useless and quite ineffective. There was a time when everybody could get any form of information from just about anything on the web. Security concerns prompted the installation of firewalls and other intrusion prevention systems that blocks unwanted users from getting into sites such as those of the FBI and other secure government sites. Governments have them yet even these million-dollar computer security systems are sometimes baffled by malware that evolves like the rest of the internet.
An example of this would be the recent baffling case of the US Marshal’s and FBI’s email system that has been victim of an unknown virus in their unsecured network (unsecured means secured to these people) that prompted them to disconnect some networks resources from the rest of the defense or national network to contain and get down to catching, eventually removing the problematic malware prowling within their walls. ISP’s have also done some securing of their own, blocking of their own of known attack sites that prevents users from getting into them thus heading off potential exposure of their network to malware lurking within.