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Subject: Re: Firewalls vs Blocking Sites
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso @ cisco . com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:49:35 -0500
To: "Sean Fuller" <c60201 @ zone . arnold . af . mil>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

So -- how many messages have you received since then?  ;-)

- paul

At 07:51 AM 10/29/96 -0600, Sean Fuller wrote:

>I just wrote some software for our firewall that locks access by
>an ethernet address whenever someone accesses anything within
>a list of about 520 pornographic sites.  The person who accesses
>the site gets a message in their browser that says that they
>hit a site that is non-official in nature and all internet access
>from their client will be blocked.  Any subsequent accesses
>by their client tells them that their client machine was used
>to access material that was non-official in nature, and so they
>cannot access the Internet any more.  They are told how they can get
>their access reinstated within the messages that are returned by the proxy.
>The web security proxy sends email whenever it locks somebody's PC.
>
>

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