Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 May 1996 20:25:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: tcp/ip filtering |
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On Fri, 17 May 1996, Michael Riepe wrote:
> From: Coolio <omnilord@igc.net> > > > On the subject of implementing a server based tcp/ip packet filtering > > system... (clip) > > Sorry to interrupt your conversation, but this has to stop NOW. Linux > is an operating system, not a configurable "network indecency filter". > > I can hardly believe that someone calls an automatic censorship module > a "bonus" or a "neat demonstration". That's sick. > > -- > Michael "Tired" Riepe <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de> > "Beware the storm that gathers here!" (The Prophet's Song)
Let them have their fun... it will make their teachers happy, it will make the students happy (or the 90% that can get thru the censor), and it will not really hurt anyone.
Censorship of this type is what the 'jargon' file calls an 'AI-complete' problem -- it appears to be easily done, but the actual implementation pre-requires solving the "general AI problem".
In other words, the design requires creation of a human-level-intelligence algorithm (presumably one without libido :)
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