Pity that "unlawful" really isn't any easier to find than "inappropriate," but can cause boatloads more trouble.
I may be pessimistic, but my take is that it's flatly impossible to flag all "bad" (whether unlawful or inappropriate) activity without whitelisting -- as you say, sites suitable for blacklisting pop up too quickly, and some sites (like Google) can be used for licit activities as well as il.
So, I think your best option is not to try to find a perfect solution, but rather hunt one down that proves due diligence should la policia come sniffing around. This perhaps won't save you from having equipment impounded, but then the only thing that will is a whitelisting solution, and that's unworkable unless you want to hamstring your entire user population, and it should at least keep the IT staff and upper eschelons from getting hit with whatever charges sound most like "contributory negligence" in your neck of the woods.
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Date: 2006-04-04 05:19 pm (UTC)I may be pessimistic, but my take is that it's flatly impossible to flag all "bad" (whether unlawful or inappropriate) activity without whitelisting -- as you say, sites suitable for blacklisting pop up too quickly, and some sites (like Google) can be used for licit activities as well as il.
So, I think your best option is not to try to find a perfect solution, but rather hunt one down that proves due diligence should la policia come sniffing around. This perhaps won't save you from having equipment impounded, but then the only thing that will is a whitelisting solution, and that's unworkable unless you want to hamstring your entire user population, and it should at least keep the IT staff and upper eschelons from getting hit with whatever charges sound most like "contributory negligence" in your neck of the woods.