Entrepreneur Gary Kremen, who sold Sex.com for $12 million in 1996, has invested in a startup company behind adult content-filtering system CrowdSifter.
Fire rescue captain Todd Burkhardt was looking for sports scores and shopping for furniture. But the county has tagged his web surfing as pornographic.
Councilman Pete Constant demonstrated an anti-porn filter at a local library last week in an attempt to show the improved effectiveness of porn-blocking software.
Open-source security provider Untangle has announced the winner of its Deep Throat Fight Club filtering systems contest. Security system Fortinet came out on top, blocking 97.7 percent of requests for adult content in the competition.
Reports of a Melbourne teenager hacking into a government-supplied antiporn filter are being investigated, according to Federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan.
A 16-year-old student cracked the federal government's new $69 million Internet porn filter in minutes, leaving the toolbar icon intact so the filter still appears to be functioning.
Having explored many options to keep children from accessing pornography, Australian Communications Minister Helen Coonan has decided on a federal subsidy for parents who buy filtering software for their home computers.
Whenever lawmakers propose a mandatory .XXX top-level domain, there is a familiar refrain: that filtering technologies are not adequate to protect children from adult material online. A new anti-porn filter called iShield from Guardware Inc. may be the adult industry’s best hope for refuting that claim.
As adult-oriented content continues to merge with Video iPod, parents are seeking ways to monitor what their children are downloading and watching — and software companies are beginning to respond.
In keeping with a mobile adult classification framework set in place by the newly formed Independent Mobile Classification Body, Orange UK has officially instituted a filtering system to restrict access to porn content.
Internet filtering software installed in public library computers are causing web surfing snafus. Access to info about a children’s book, a site that follows gas prices nationwide, and even the U.S. Supreme Court’s website have been blocked on some library computers.
