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I heard the filtering may still be the old Cerberi...

2009-05-07T22:19:00.000-07:00

I heard the filtering may still be the old Cerberian, that's at least what it was in 2003 during early deployment of the Internet to Family History Centers. That company was in Draper and it is still there but as a wholly-owned office of Blue Coat Systems. Blue Coat Systems bought them in 2004 and has steadily improved the ratings and so forth, and a recent note on the BYU-Idaho website says they use it and it appears based on that same note that it is also still used at the Church level, and it is known to work with almost any other server system.

Home users will recognize this as being the free 'K9 Web Protection'.

Otherwise I don't really know whether or not they do but indications are that they still use Blue Coat Web Filter, but this is the absolute best filter out there, I use K9 myself and find it very effective in dealing with porn and other web nasties, including spyware as the company actively hunts spyware sites down.

Undoubtedly the church headquarters uses WebSense ...

2009-03-31T11:18:00.000-07:00

Undoubtedly the church headquarters uses WebSense (made by Cisco: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2t/12_2t15/feature/guide/ftwebsen.html), one of the most popular filtering softwares in the US. It is customizable and the filter itself is created manually by ratings systems. Additionally, users can request a site be removed from the filtering list.

The Church does have web filtering on it's network...

2009-03-27T09:25:00.000-07:00

The Church does have web filtering on it's networks based on Cisco hardware that is managed by the IT group at Church headquarters. In the corporate offices, the filtering is just about what you would expect in any professional offices.

I'm sure the Church offices use some sort of web f...

2009-03-27T08:06:00.000-07:00

I'm sure the Church offices use some sort of web filtering. Brigham Young University has a web filtering system for all of the computers on campus. My work even has a filtering system, a source of annoyance now that they have applied it to sports websites for the duration of March Madness. It makes good sense for businesses and organizations to avoid viruses, productivity distractions, and objectionable content.

It is another matter entirely to apply restrictions to all of the Internet. To my knowledge the proposed constituency and the proposals of CP80 don't actually filter -- they purport to make consumer-side filtering software work better. (Filtering software is notoriously inaccurate, with both false positives and insufficient coverage.)

You made an accurate conclusion.
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