[CentOS] SquidGuard

[William Warren]

the nice thing about DG is it's flexibility.  You can whitelist your pc 
and leave the others filtered..or setup your pc to be in a less 
stringent group.  I would re-evaluate the full power of DG..<G>

John Summerfield wrote:
> dan1 wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Has anyone here use SquidGuard for their Squid proxy
>>> running in CentOS4.4 to block list of bad sites? Is
>>> the RPM available using yum? Any feedback using this
>>> software appreciated. Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> junji
>>
>>
>> You also have http://dansguardian.org which is a very powerful 
>> blocker, and also scans all pages for bad words. Therefore it works 
>> much better than only relying on blocklists.
>> It also exists as RPM for CentOS 4.
>> Free for non commercial use only.
>> Give it a try!
> 
> I evaluated dansguardian and found it interferred to much with _my_ 
> browsing, which I don't think anyone would find objectionable. The 
> problem with blocking on bad words is that whether they're objectional 
> depends on the context: calling a file a bastard is perfectly correct, 
> calling your friend a bastard, even a black bastard might be okay, but 
> you would rightly be offended if I said you are. Even if your paresnts 
> are unmarried.
> 
> And then there cultural differences; I once described someone as, like 
> me, being penurious and he was highly offended. The head meaning I found 
> in an American dictionary doesn't even appear in at least one common 
> dictionary here.
> 
> So "bastard" and "penurious" may be in Dan's dictionary of bad words, 
> and if so I've probably used enough bad words for this document to be 
> cesored by DansGuardian.
> 
> Then there are those who might be offended at being called a dog, a 
> monkey, a swine, a dingo, a bum.
> 
> I've decided fron-ending google to enforce safe search and blocking 
> other popular search enginss such as Yahoo, Microsoft will do for 
> limiting the subjects one can research. Now, if our kids search for sex 
> they'll find socially-accepted information about sex; searching for 
> horticultural info won't return responses directed to pot, coco and such.
> 
> Chat rooms are still a problem. We block them as we find them.
> 

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every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt 
condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their 
righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

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