Fwd: in the news ... Ontario filters...

Robert Guerra rguerra at interlog.com
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:37:31 -0400


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Is there anyone on Uk crypto who might be able to answer Mr. Jones's question?

regards

robert

>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:20:07 -0400 (EDT)
>From: David Jones <djones@insight.cas.mcmaster.ca>
>To: efc-talk@insight.cas.mcmaster.ca
>Subject: in the news ... Ontario filters, public humiliation, email hoax
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>new in the EFC Media Archives, http://www.efc.ca/pages/media/
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>* Canadian Furor Over Net Filters
>  http://www.efc.ca/pages/media/wired-news.24jun99.html
>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:43:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Jones <djones@insight.cas.mcmaster.ca>
To: efc-talk@insight.cas.mcmaster.ca
Subject: Ontario Gov't installs net filters -- 65,000 bureacrats affected
Reply-To: David Jones <djones@insight.cas.mcmaster.ca>
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   Bureaucrats denied access to porn, hate sites
 
   Ontario is introducing one of the country's most comprehensive
   Internet policing programs, by installing "filters" that will
   prevent civil servants from surfing the Web for sites promoting
   violence, hatred, and pornography.
 
   URL = http://www.efc.ca/pages/media/national-post.23jun99.html

>-- djones@efc.ca
>
>- - - -
>
>About the Ontario Gov't filters ...
>
>The software they will be using is called "Smartfilter"
>by "Secure Computing", www.wctc.com
>
>As I've asked before (without any success) ...
>
>If anybody knows how to get past the scrambling/encoding
>of the list of banned sites, please let me know.
>
>-- djones@efc.ca


Robert Guerra <az096@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
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