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Experts: BBC's Plan To Block Net Access Unworkable
News The BBC's plan to block UK access to its international news site has been greeted with a mixture of criticism and derision from experts. French Nazi auction trial says "it is not possible" to block users geographically.
[February 1, 2001, 10:05]
Yahoo! UK To Block Access To US Chatrooms
News has changed its UK Instant Messenger client to block access to adult chatrooms based in the US. The US version of the software, which anyone can access, will remain unchanged and users will still be able to get on to adult chatrooms based in the UK
[February 12, 2001, 14:59]
How To Block Ads And Access ...
White Papers You probably aren't crazy about ads. And they are becoming more common, more intrusive, more annoying. Surfing today is like running through a minefield of exploding windows that open, and open, and sometimes refuse to close.
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
EMusic Wants Napster Users Banished
News Embattled MP3 site EMusic.com has asked Napster to block access to 600 of its users who have supposedly been trading EMusic tunes illegally through the controversial file-swapping application. A Napster spokeswoman said the company gets requests to...
[November 30, 2000, 9:47]
Aussie ISPs Held Responsible For Content
News Not only that, the regime will require local ISPs to block access to undesirable non-Australian sites -- a move that puts Australia in step with the online censorship practices of China and Singapore.
[March 23, 1999, 7:48]
MSN Messenger Hit By Virus, Outage
Talkback I'd like to pass this info down to you- get rid of it as follows: block its access to the internet through your firewall if possible.then just use control+alt+delete if you highlight it when you block its access, look for im names on process end...
[June 10, 2006, 22:32]
Be Prepared To Pay For Security
Talkback They could block access to the Internet to those customers of theirs of which is determined that there PC is infected. They could block access to proven phishing web sites. They could block well known attack ports (e.g.and 445) that are not common...
[August 25, 2005, 21:58]
Parliament To Discuss Child Porn Regulations
Talkback What else will they block access too? Will an ISP block access for instance to companies, that they don't deal with, therefore guiding users only to their own, or affliated companies, or websites that have paid them?
[July 29, 2005, 14:50]
Net Attack Flops, But Threat Persists
News A flood of such data can block access to servers by clogging bottlenecks in the network infrastructure, thus preventing legitimate data from reaching its destination. However, ICMP data is not essential to network administration, and many servers...
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
Kazaa Forced To Block Search Terms
News The record companies have a list of 10,000 keywords they want Kazaa to block user access to, according to counsel for the record companies, Tony Bannon, who described the 3,000 measure as "woefully inadequate".
[November 25, 2005, 8:35]
Internet Addicts Surf On Work Time
News While 78 percent of employers block employee access to pornography, only 47 percent block access to gambling sites, 20 percent block shopping and auction sites and 4 percent block news. The survey revealed that 67 percent of workers access news...
[August 23, 2002, 9:39]
Yahoo! Defends Itself Over Nazi Auctions
News In order to render access impossible we would have had to identify the geographical location of individuals, indentify whether material was racist and then block access," says a Yahoo! If the French court understood the Internet it would realise...
[July 24, 2000, 16:21]
Yahoo! Ads Will Know Where You Are
News must completely block French citizens' access to online auctions of Nazi items on its US-based site or face fines of $14,000 per day. Geographic tracking techniques figure strongly in the case because they can help determine a visitor's origin...
[June 28, 2001, 10:35]
Safe Surfing Test Proposed To Protect Kids
News Currently many of the filters available to schools block access to such rooms. It is clear that a lot of filters in their current form are unsatisfactory as they over-block new content. The report seems to believe that filtering software is bound...
[January 30, 2001, 15:36]
NASA Site Blocks Out Brazil
News From time to time, when JPL security people detect hacker activity emanating from a particular part of the world, or particular subnets, they will block access until they get the situation resolved," he said.
[March 16, 2000, 10:54]
Secure Clients With ZoneAlarm
News The first option allows you to choose whether to activate ZoneAlarm Pro's privacy control (Figure A), which allows you to block pop-up ads, banner ads, and third-party cookies. With ZoneAlarm Pro, most of the work you do concerns the up-front...
[May 23, 2002, 12:48]
Australian Body Calls For Mod-chip Legalisation
News Mod chips commonly allow consumers to circumvent features of their consoles and DVD players that block access to discs printed to run on substantially identical machines built for other regions. However, the mod chips also allow gaming enthusiasts...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
MP: ISPs Must Come Clean On Paedophilia
News Parliament will debate on Wednesday whether ISPs should be forced to declare whether they block customers from accessing known child pornography sites. She added that she is prepared to name ISPs who are not taking action to block child pornography.
[October 26, 2005, 12:25]
Academic Breaks The Great Firewall Of China
News By forging the source address of a packet containing a "sensitive" keyword, people could trigger the firewall to block access between source and destination addresses for up to an hour at a time. If an attacker had identified the machines used by...
[July 3, 2006, 13:00]
USC Bucks Growing MP3 Ban
News According to officials at Oregon State University, one of the first to block the program, in the week before the university cut off access, it was taking up 20 percent of the school's bandwidth. There are other programs out there, and we can't...
[February 29, 2000, 6:14]
