Censorware Censorware Bess is a brand of censorware made by Secure Computing Corporation, which acquired maker N2H2 in 2003; it is usually used in libraries and schools. The main purpose of the system is as an internet filter, blocking minors using the public computers from accessing web content deemed inappropriate by the Bess manufacturers or local administration. The system is not installed locally (on each individual computer workstation), but installs on the server between the users and the open internet. This generally makes it harder to bypass - though it is not uncommon for students with more extensive computer knowledge to attempt to bypass the system, with varying success. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bess"
Censorship in cyberspace is often treated as a separate issue from censorship of offline material, but the legal issues are similar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Censorship in cyberspace"
Censorware is a term for content filtering software, especially when used to filter content delivered over the web. Censorware decides what content will be available on a particular machine or network, often for the benefit of children. Many things may be filtered, including pornography, gambling, alternative lifestyles, sexuality, and some religions. The term "censorware" is valuative; companies usually do not refer to their software as "censorware" and prefer terms such as internet filter or internet nanny. ...more on Wikipedia about "Censorware"
A ‘content filter’ is software or a hardware/software combination that blocks unwanted Internet content. While most content filters primarily filter web ( HTTP) requests, many can be configured to filter other requests, such as instant messaging or chat rooms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Content filter"
DansGuardian is an Internet filtering system, primarily authored by Daniel Barron, the technical director of SmoothWall Ltd. It is distributed under the GPL, and written in C++. It primarily runs in Linux and other free Unixes. It is entirely command line and web-based, and meant to be used in conjunction with a web proxy such as Squid. It is actively maintained; the last stable version is 2.9.3.1, released December 16, 2005. In the United States, DansGuardian satisfies the requirements of Children's Internet Protection Act. ...more on Wikipedia about "DansGuardian"
Fortinet is a private company that is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California that specializes in network security appliances. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fortinet"
The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China has passed an Internet censorship law in mainland China. In accordance with this law, several regulations were made by the PRC government, and a censorship system is implemented variously by provincial branches of state-owned ISPs, business companies, and organizations. The project is known as Golden Shield. The special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau have their own legal systems, and like most other laws this law is not applied. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet censorship in mainland China"
ICRA ** , the Internet Content Rating Association, is an international, non-profit organization with offices in the US and UK. It's mission is to help users find the content they want, to trust what they find and to filter out what they don't want for themselves or for their children. ICRA also acts as a forum through which both policy and technical infrastructure are defined to help shape the way that the World Wide Web and content distribution channels work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Content Rating Association"
iPrism is an Internet filter distributed by St. Bernard Software. According to the St. Bernard Website, it is a "high-performance Web filtering appliance that monitors, blocks, and reports on inappropriate Internet access." The iPrism Model 1200 was winner of the CRN Magazine "Editor's Choice Award." The Model 3000 includes "a gigabit interface, RAID, and the ability to handle larger volumes of Web traffic." ...more on Wikipedia about "IPrism"
The Myanmar Wide Web (MWW) is the intranet maintained by the military government of Myanmar (aka Burma). The MWW is designed to keep users away from information or artistic works that could possibly "subvert" the régime, cause ethnic tension, or encourage political instability in the view of the military junta. The Web sites that users are able to visit are pre-selected by official censors. Free e-mail services (which are more difficult to monitor than official government accounts) are not allowed. Only about 25,000 people in the impoverished country have access to the MWW because of high subscription fees. ...more on Wikipedia about "Myanmar Wide Web"
Naomi Internet Filter is a freeware advanced web filtering program (Censorware) for Windows developed by Radiant Morning technologies. It is intended for families and parents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Naomi Internet Filter"
Netintelligence is a UK based software company offering anti-virus, web filtering and security services. They were founded in 1998. ...more on Wikipedia about "Netintelligence"
Secure Computing Corporation, or SCC, is a public company that develops and sells computer security products: ...more on Wikipedia about "Secure Computing"
SonicWALL is a company which provides software and hardware for internet security, including such things as the SonicWALL firewall software and content filtering service. ...more on Wikipedia about "SonicWALL"
Squid is a popular free software ( GPL'ed) proxy server and web cacher. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. It is primarily designed to run on Unix-like systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Squid cache"
WebSENSE is a computer software program that is used to block access to certain things on the internet - a web-filtering program, commonly known as censorware. It's mostly aimed at companies and government offices, though other entities use it as well. Like all programs considered censorware, its use is controversial. ...more on Wikipedia about "Websense"
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