tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536351741931918832.post2597934721190655014..comments2024-01-22T08:35:08.612+11:00Comments on Broadbanned Revolution - fight the philterphiles that be.: With Netsweeper installed, the thought police will be unnecessaryJon Seymourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10532362449090377707noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536351741931918832.post-86206849858464618812008-12-22T15:23:00.000+11:002008-12-22T15:23:00.000+11:00Let's not beat around the bush - no matter how goo...Let's not beat around the bush - no matter how good a filter is, there will always be mistakes made.<BR/><BR/>If a filter was 95% effective, that still a 5 out of 100 pages false positive/negative rate - I would consider that to be totally and utterly unacceptable, even if that was the only problem with the plan. The current figures being bandied about make the prospect of 95% accuracy about as likely as Paris Hilton becoming a Rhodes scholar.<BR/><BR/>Filter failures aren't just blocking things out that shouldn't be, it's also allowing through content that should be - so the idea of safe browsing is baloney.<BR/><BR/>I don't know how anyone could possibly claim that a filter can work with any degree of accuracy - it can't, not until the day computers learn to see and read, understand the context of what they are looking at, and then make a judgement based on a moral framework. I don't see that happening any time soon.Stuart Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07539012454094733648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536351741931918832.post-49862497599159112142008-12-22T09:35:00.000+11:002008-12-22T09:35:00.000+11:00To note even more, it classifies a website which i...To note even more, it classifies a website which is known for "Amateur Porn/Webcams" as General.<BR/><BR/>Fairly Obvious it's useless.<BR/><BR/>URL Category<BR/>http://jj.am General [45]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com