Filtering Web Porn: Competition Puts Software to the Test

By PC World Apr 13, 2008 12:00 AM

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As an addition to the 2008 RSA security conference in San Francisco, a software company called untangle hosted a shootout between competing Internet site filtering solutions. Held at the Thirsty Bear in San Francisco, the tools blocked porn with a 94-98% success rate. The complete results and methodology are available on untangle's website.

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