[GLLUG] more Penguicon thoughts

[Jeff Lawton]

We may be able to talk the hotel into letting us put it at the head end 
and proxy the entire hotel.

Jeff Lawton
Ideal Solution, LLC
517-485-2650 ext 220
jeff at idealso.com
http://www.idealso.com





Marshal Newrock wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:38:47 -0400
> Jeff Lawton <jeff at idealso.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Lee is planning on attending next year I sure he would share his
>> squid configuration files to make the lounge a safe place for kids.
>> We could offer passwords to allow adults to bypass the filter if
>> needed. Lee I don't mean to speak for you. would you be willing to
>> take on the kid safe proxy filter for next year?
>>     
>
> Such proxies tend to be both ineffective and too effective - that is,
> easy to bypass or find out the password, and they don't block
> everything they should, or tends to block sites that shouldn't be
> blocked. The main result will be annoying people who are just trying to
> look something up.
>
> There's also the liability issue again.  I believe that if we attempt
> to block everything "bad" we become responsible for whatever gets
> through.
>
> On the other hand, a caching transparent web proxy is an excellent
> idea.  I'd been thinking of this too.  Next year, we should put
> everything behind a pfsense box with a proxy on it, and let it serve
> dhcp and dns to all non-terminal computers.
>
>   
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