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I don't know why Hal... that was not one of my suggestions to the law.<br>
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Been in the law is not a guarantee that is related to justice or
related to technical stuff.<br>
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Be totally sure that the kids will disable the filters by themselves...
(go kids! <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span>)<br>
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but the problem is the same: we need to provide some filtering software
to be installed on the<br>
XO. It is the law. If we don't agree then we need to change the law,
but if the law stays the<br>
same then we have to follow the law.<br>
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This could be a design:<br>
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a) The teacher takes a XO, or use the XO of one pupil, and update a
table of "forbidden" sites<br>
from the internet database (there are many).<br>
b) The other XOs take the data from the main XO (or from the XServer if
you want or need).<br>
c) Every XO will have a small "take this port - send to other port" and
filter the stuff in the middle.<br>
web protocols are easily available and no hard at all. There is plenty
of "open sourced" servers<br>
(for all the protocols) that can be modified to do this task<br>
d) Every XO will tell to the teacher's XO if it is "running" the
"filtering software". If not every<br>
teacher must take appropriate measures (it is on the teacher hands and
responsibility, it is the law,<br>
we just need to provide the filtering software).<br>
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I am sure that there are better designs and proposals from the
collectivity here.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
Javier Rodriguez<br>
Lima, Peru<br>
(some people doesn't like when I am passing the voice about bad news,
they think that I am<br>
playing the role of Devil's advocate by wrong reasons. But that is a
training and needed role<br>
in any serious law school. If not... then you are a "cash" lawyer (one
that get his bills paid from<br>
presenting at the court but it is not ready to win the case).<br>
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<br>
Hal Murray wrote:
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<pre wrap="">b) The filtering software MUST be installed on each computer (not in a
proxy or any other intermediary device). Article 2 ("El cumplimiento
de esta obligacion se hace efectivo mediante la instalación, en todas
las computadoras, de programas o software especiales de filtro y
bloqueo...")
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Why?
Regulations have a long history of getting in trouble when they specify some
implementation detail which turns out the be not-such-a-great choice in a few
years.
I wonder when the botnet herders will start offering kids downloads that
claim to disable their local filters.
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