HomeSafe web filter launched by Talk Talk
It has been announced that broadband giant Talk Talk has launched a network level website filter known as the HomeSafe website filter.
For many broadband users one of the risks of spending a lot of time online is being exposed to potentially infected websites. There are also other concerns such as kids gaining access to offensive websites or younger users spending all of their time on their favourite social networking sites instead of doing their studies and research for school and college.
It has now been announced that Talk Talk broadband has become the first provider to offer a website filter that works on a network level to provide online security and block websites. The new filter is called HomeSafe and is a free opt in service that is being offered to customers of the communications giant.
There are a number of benefits that this service will offer to customers. This includes virus alerts to identity any infected websites and to block them. It also has a KidSafe facility that enables accountholders to block offensive websites to stop kids from being exposed to them. Another benefit is the Homework Time facility, where parents can block popular social networking sites to stop kids getting distracted when they should be concentrating on their homework.
An official from Talk Talk said: ‘Of course, it’s not a silver bullet and it doesn’t absolve parents from the responsibility of knowing what their children are up to online. But our research shows parents understand this. They don’t want their ISP to control what content they can or can’t access online – they just want their ISP to give them the power to implement settings that are right for their family.’
Will you be signing up to this free service as a Talk Talk customer?
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No but I have no choice.
They should only be redirecting the traffic of the users that request the system. I could do it so I know they or rather Huawei-Symantec could.
I have a system which checks my website is up every five minutes. Now I find an Opal malware bot pretending to be IE8 not even saying it’s a scanning engine connecting from 62.24.222.(132|131) every 5 minutes too.
I have a passive monitor and my mail server does no layer 7 parsing or virus scanning for the very reason that it can be exploited and then I find my ISP compulsorarily lowering my networks security for me and for what. Snort.org recommend passive taps due to past exploits in this kind of filtering for this very reason and what a good target, a MITM of everyone.
The poster at the following url is right (http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/05/10/talktalks-new-blocking-system/) they’ve blinkered MPs yet again for ad revenue, otherwise they would have prevented IP spoofing at a much safer layer. As if a company with such long customer service waiting times and such a low broadband price would pay for this out of the goodness of their hearts. ISPs originally refused to prevent IP spoofing because they said the routing should be as safe and simple as possible, by only transporting data. Not only were they right but that would be a much safer layer to filter on than homesafe operates on and you can’t opt out.
All they accomplish is advertising the dodgy sites. The day the judge announced newzbin2 blocked newzbin was back up and I didn’t even know about newzbin. Malware creators like new malware ideas too.
Do I really have to use a VPN to a server on the net to get around their incompetence or hire a lawyer to get my contract terminated as from what I’ve read I do believe it’s illegal under european law??
It also potentially doubles dos attacks.
I posted to talktalks site but had my comments deleted every time. I phoned them and they didn’t even know what the service was and this is the business call centre.
No but I have no choice.
I have a system which checks my website is up every five minutes. Now I find an Opal malware bot pretending to be IE8 not even saying it’s a scanning engine connecting from 62.24.222.(132|131) every 5 minutes too.
I have a passive monitor and my mail server does no layer 7 parsing or virus scanning for the very reason that it can be exploited and then I find my ISP compulsorarily lowering my networks security for me and for what. Snort.org recommend passive taps due to past exploits in this kind of filtering for this very reason and what a good target, a MITM of everyone.
The poster at the following url is right (http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/05/10/talktalks-new-blocking-system/) they’ve blinkered MPs yet again for ad revenue, otherwise they would have prevented IP spoofing at a much safer layer. As if a company with such long customer service waiting times and such a low broadband price would pay for this out of the goodness of their hearts. ISPs originally refused to prevent IP spoofing because they said the routing should be as safe and simple as possible, by only transporting data. Not only were they right but that would be a much safer layer to filter on than homesafe operates on and you can’t opt out.
All they accomplish is advertising the dodgy sites. The day the judge announced newzbin2 blocked newzbin was back up and I didn’t even know about newzbin. Malware creators like new malware ideas too.
Do I really have to use a VPN to a server on the net to get around their incompetence or hire a lawyer to get my contract terminated as from what I’ve read I do believe it’s illegal under european law??
It also potentially doubles dos attacks. They should only be redirecting the traffic of the users that request the system. I could do it so I know they could.
I posted to talktalks site but had my comments deleted every time. I phoned them and they didn’t even know what the service was and this is the business call centre.